Resiliency Consulting: Helping Companies Get In Peak Condition
In today’s world, businesses face not only stiff competition from rivals but also a uniquely tumultuous global environment. Resiliency consultants can help them develop the toughness required to thrive. Related on MHA […]
Global Turmoil Making You Ill? Try a Dose of Risk Management
For the past few years the news has been a drumbeat of threatening events—and the beat seems to be growing louder. In such times, the best thing an organization can do is […]
Blood, Sweat, and Tiers: The Benefits of Tiered BC Testing
Tiered testing is a way of matching the rigor of the testing applied to a given business process with its importance to the organization. It ensures that you get the most bang […]
Goodbye to All That: How to Phase Out Your Data Center
Many organizations are considering reducing their involvement in the data center business and moving some or all of their computing environment to the cloud or a colocation facility. A successful migration is […]
Omission Accomplished: When Front-Line Workers Are Excluded from BCM Training
Many organizations seem to go out of their way to provide business continuity training to everyone—except the front-line workers who would most likely be the ones tasked with responding to a disruption. […]
Fooling Yourself: When BC Professionals Confuse Effort with Results
One mistake we see frequently is when organizations equate a high volume of work done in their business continuity programs with recoverability. Smart BC professionals know that becoming resilient requires maintaining a […]
Eat the Frog: Tackling the Tough BCM Challenges You Habitually Put Off
Almost every business continuity management program has gaps that are well-known to the BCM office but never addressed, usually because closing them would be hard. However, in many cases, tackling those BCM […]
The Golden Key: Using KPIs Can Open the Door to Excellence
There is a golden key that can be used by every organization to open the door to excellence for its business continuity management program. It is making use of key performance indicators […]
Roll with the Changes: A New Generation Requires a New Approach to BCM
The Internet generation has arrived in the workplace, bringing new ways of thinking, learning, and getting things done. The business continuity profession will need to adapt if it is to partner effectively […]
Fine by Me: The Proposed $1 Million Fine of Colonial Pipeline
The Department of Transportation recently announced a proposed $1 million fine of Colonial Pipeline for shortcomings in its recovery planning that increased the societal damage in the wake of the cyberattack on […]
A Great Place to Start: The ISO 31000 Risk Management Guidelines
Every organization that is determined to get serious about risk management should know about ISO 31000. This set of risk management guidelines from the International Standards Organization sets out a smart, easy-to-implement […]
How to Get Business Units to Take Ownership of Their BCM Programs
One challenge familiar to every business continuity management professional is dealing with the business units’ attitude that business continuity is the BCM office’s responsibility, not theirs. Getting the business units to take […]