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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. It focused on identifying the most critical business processes and developing plans to keep those processes going or quickly restore them in the event of an outage.

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Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja 

MHA Consulting

In today’s post we’ll look at the top 10 free or almost free resources business continuity management professionals can utilize to help them raise their BCM skills and effectiveness to ninja level. However, there is one aspect of doing BCM that is much better and easier than it was when I was getting started 25 years ago.

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The Human Factor: BCM Team Roles and Skill Requirements 

MHA Consulting

Knowing what roles should be represented on the business continuity management (BCM) team and what kind of people should fill them is an overlooked key to success in making organizations resilient. The roles that should be represented on a company’s BCM team change over time depending on the maturity of the program.

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Herrera Unplugged: How to Hamstring Your BC Consultant

MHA Consulting

Herrera Unplugged is an occasional series in which MHA Consulting CEO Michael Herrera shares his candid views on current hot-button business continuity topics. You might think that a company spending a substantial sum for the advice of a business continuity consultant would do everything it could to make the collaboration a success.

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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. As consultants, we are continually surprised to discover that many of our clients do not understand the meaning of these fundamental terms.

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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. It typically exists alongside plans for crisis management, security response, and other areas. These may be different than the workarounds used in a non-cyber application outage.

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An Introduction to FFIEC: BCM’s Gold Standard

MHA Consulting

FFIEC in our industry is best known for providing the business continuity management standard that U.S. FFIEC is, of course, one of many standards that organizations can adopt and seek to come into alignment with to strengthen their BCM programs. For this reason, it is often referred to as the Gold Standard of BCM standards.

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