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 […]
Risk Matrix: Why You Should Employ a Risk Management Matrix
One of the best tools for assessing and reducing risk is a risk management matrix. Today’s blog provides an example of such a matrix and explains how and why to use one. […]
Know Your Gaps: Manage Residual Risk to Keep Your Company Safe
Over the past 18 months, most organizations have made changes to their business continuity plans to increase their resiliency. Unfortunately, few have taken the critical next step of measuring and managing the […]
Every Single Day: Make Risk Management Part of Your Company’s Culture
The recent blockage of the Suez Canal was a rare event that pointed up the need for companies to undertake a certain vital activity every single day: risk management. In today’s post, […]
Types of Risk: Don’t Forget to Keep Tabs on Your Long-Term Risks
The challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic have understandably monopolized most business continuity professionals’ attention over the past six months. In today’s post, I want to remind you of what the five types […]
The Evolution of ERM: Adapting Risk Management for a Disruptive Age
Two decades of upheaval have given rise to a new approach to managing risk. In today’s post we’ll look at the history and future of enterprise risk management (ERM). Related on MHA […]
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Managing Risk but Were Afraid to Ask
In business continuity, risk is at the center of everything we do. Therefore, we thought it might be helpful to make today’s blog a primer on risk. Most of this stuff you […]
Solving the Puzzle of the Operational Risk Management Lifecycle
When you’re completing a jigsaw puzzle, it is a lot easier to grasp how the pieces fit together if you have a picture of the completed puzzle to go by. By the […]
From Risk to Resilience: ERM and Tools to Help You Manage Uncertainty
Given the rising uncertainty of today’s environment, every organization should implement an enterprise risk management (ERM) program. Mastering the eight core areas of ERM can be daunting, but software tools can lighten […]
BC Practitioner’s Guide to IT Security Concerns
Within their organizations, business continuity (BC) practitioners should be advocates for an active approach to heading off threats to the company’s computing services. Today’s blog will lay out some of the concerns […]
BCM Basics: BIAs vs. Risk Assessments
This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. The business impact analysis (BIA) and the threat and risk assessment (TRA) are two […]