What Was New in ’22: The BCM Year in Review
The year 2022 saw the tapering off of the pandemic, the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, an ongoing wave of cyberattacks, continuing supply chain woes, and a renewed focus by organizations on […]
How BCM Software Can Make Your Business Continuity Program More Agile
Business continuity programs need to be agile in order to protect their organizations in today’s chaotic environment. Well-chosen BCM software can help a continuity program be more nimble and effective. Related on […]
Reading the Road Ahead: A BCM Dashboard for 2022
The pedal is to the metal and we are about to leave 2021 in the dust. Here’s a verbal dashboard to give you an idea of what might lie ahead for your […]
A Matter of Time: When SMEs Are Prevented from Helping With BCM
When it comes to business continuity management, many otherwise rational organizations behave in an irrational way. They make a commitment to improve their BCM program then sharply limit the amount of time […]
Business Continuity, R.I.P.?
The reports of the death of the field of business continuity have been greatly overstated. But those of us who work in it do have to raise our performance in a few […]
1 Program, 6 Plans: The Half Dozen Plans Every BCM Program Should Have
A quality business continuity management (BCM) program is made up of six separate plans covering everything from emergency response to IT disaster recovery. In today’s post, we’ll explain what the six plans […]
Run It Like a Business: 7 Tips to Help Your BCM Program Succeed
The best business continuity managers run their programs like entrepreneurs running their own companies. In today’s post, I’ll share seven tips to help you adopt this world-beating, program-enhancing attitude. Related on BCMMETRICS: […]
Sweating the Big Stuff: 5 Things that Really Matter in BCM
Do you know the book “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff”? Today’s post is about sweating the big stuff. It lays out the five things that matter most for the success of your […]
Compliance and Residual Risk – It’s Not Just For Big Companies
One of our most successful webinars is “Your New BFFs – Compliance and Residual Risk.” (BFFs means Best Friends Forever, for those who haven’t been keeping up with their modern slang.) Available […]
What’s Up, Doc? When and How to Perform a Current State Assessment
I had an interesting week last week: Along with two other MHA consultants, I spent two and a half days performing a current state assessment of the business continuity situation at a […]
Building an Effective BCM Program: Step 1 – Know Yourself
A couple of months ago we published an ebook entitled “10 Keys to a Peak-Performing BCM Program,” written by MHA Consulting CEO Michael Herrera. It’s available for free download here and is […]
Crisis Management, Public Relations, and Business Continuity
Crisis management, public relations, and business continuity are tested during a disaster event. Today, we’re analyzing business continuity plans and disaster response to determine a good public relations response vs. a bad […]
