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Write or Wrong: Five Common BCM Documentation Mistakes 

MHA Consulting

Having quality documentation is an important part of a sound business continuity management program, but it’s not the most important part. In today’s post, we’ll look at this and four other mistakes people commonly make in documenting their BC programs. 1: Trying to document a recovery plan that does not exist.

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BCM Basics: the Difference Between Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. For business continuity newcomers, few topics are as confusing as the difference between business continuity and IT disaster recovery.

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Gone With the Wind: 12 BCM Practices That Have Become Outdated 

MHA Consulting

Most of these have had demonstrable impacts on the practice of business continuity management (BCM), rendering some traditional practices obsolete and ushering in new concerns and techniques. It’s interesting to look at BCM practices that have fallen into disuse or are no longer regarded as beneficial or sufficient.

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Recovering Right: How to Improve at IT Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

For these reasons, it is essential for every organization to get serious about IT disaster recovery planning. The Recovery Plan vs. the Plan Document One of the first things a company has to understand in order to improve at IT/DR is that the terms “IT/DR recovery plan” and “IT/DR recovery plan documentation” are not synonymous.

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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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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

We recognize that many business continuity planning terms and industry-leading methodologies can be foreign to your organization. It can be overwhelming if your organization has never implemented a robust business continuity program. It requires a budget and long-term commitment (hence why it is a BCM Program).

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

We recognize that many business continuity planning terms and industry-leading methodologies can be foreign to your organization. It can be overwhelming if your organization has never implemented a robust business continuity program. Section 2 - Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program Implementation.