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BCM Basics: Business Continuity vs. Business Resilience 

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. The terms business continuity and business resilience are superficially similar and a world apart. This was the context in which the concept of business resilience was born.

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BCM Basics: Introduction to Business Continuity as a Service (BCaaS)

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. Many people are familiar with Software as a Service (SaaS), the cloud-computing model in which software applications are delivered over the internet. We’re also available any time on demand.

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Gone With the Wind: 12 BCM Practices That Have Become Outdated 

MHA Consulting

A partial list would include: the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the rise of the internet and cell phones, the spread of cybercrime, globalization and the lengthening of supply chains, the COVID pandemic, the growing impact of climate change, growing international tensions, the shortening of attention spans, and the rise in cloud computing.

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The 9 Best Books for Disaster Recovery Managers in 2022

Solutions Review

Description: “This practical guide to the ISO22301 business continuity management system standard shows you how to develop and implement a business continuity management (BCM) and disaster recovery plan; ensuring you get back on your feet with the minimum of fuss, should the unthinkable happen. ” GO TO BOOK. ” GO TO BOOK.

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The Four Phases of Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

Related on MHA Consulting: Learning to Talk to Your IT/DR Colleagues Knowing How to Recover Is Still Important With the migration toward cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS), many organizations have grown complacent about IT/DR. Their thinking is that the burden of recovering is now on their IT services vendors.

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The Best Disaster Recovery Practices for Organizations of All Sizes

Solutions Review

Several third-party services leverage cloud computing and on-premise resources to provide recovery activities, such as data protection, backup, replication, failover, and failback. Given that disaster recovery is requisite to keep a business going, you should identify the best possible solution for your organization.

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Disaster Recovery – What a Business Continuity Manager should know about their organisations I.T. systems

Plan B Consulting

These are the questions I think all Business Continuity Managers (BCM) should know about their own IT systems. I am just about to go down and see a clients IT department and was preparing a list of questions to ask them. I thought I would share it with the readers of this blog.