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Planning to Fail: 10 Common Mistakes Companies Make with Their BC Plans

MHA Consulting

10 Common BC Plan Mistakes Here is our list of 10 of the most common mistakes organizations make with their recovery plans: Thinking that if they have a BC document then they have a BC plan. The document is a subset of the plan, a component that pins down in writing the essential action items and information.

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Rehearsing Plan B: The Importance of Mastering Your Workarounds

MHA Consulting

In terms of bang for the buck, not all business continuity activities are created equal. It’s not hard to spend hundreds of hours a year doing BIAs, gap analyses, and risk assessments and developing recovery strategies and writing recovery plans. Pursued purposefully these are all worthwhile activities.

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BCM Basics: the Difference Between Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

Defining BC and IT/DR Business continuity (BC) is informally used as an umbrella term encompassing both business continuity and IT disaster recovery. Sometimes the form business continuity management (BCM) is used. The larger point is, this is the zone where BC and IT/DR meet.

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Why is so hard to engage an IT Organization???

Stratogrid Advisory

The conclusion was that to be successful and effective, Business Continuity Planning must be an organization-wide activity. It involves the collaboration of all business functions and all departments. I spoke with many Business Continuity Professionals, and this seems to be the case in many organizations.

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Why is so hard to engage an IT Organization???

Stratogrid Advisory

The conclusion was that to be successful and effective, Business Continuity Planning must be an organization-wide activity. It involves the collaboration of all business functions and all departments. I spoke with many Business Continuity Professionals, and this seems to be the case in many organizations.

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Everything You Need to Know About Business Continuity Plans

Erwood Group

NOTE: DRII takes this definition from the Business Continuity Institute BCI and Disaster Recovery Journal DRJ. Business Continuity Plan Governance (sometimes omitted if in a Business Continuity Charter). Business Continuity Statement. Business Continuity Plan Introduction. Plan Activation. Properties.

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What is a Business Impact Analysis (BIA)?

Stratogrid Advisory

The Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is a cornerstone of the Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program. It is an activity that will identify mission-critical business functions, processes or services in your organization, and the resources required to timely recover those activities.