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Write or Wrong: Five Common BCM Documentation Mistakes 

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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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Recovering Right: How to Improve at IT Disaster Recovery

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Far from relieving organizations of the responsibility of recovering their IT systems, today’s cloud-based and hybrid environments make it more important than ever that companies know how to bring their systems back up in the event of an outage. Moreover, cloud-services providers are themselves susceptible to outages and failed recoveries.

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

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Related on MHA Consulting: Sounds Like a Plan: The Elements of a Modern Recovery Plan Everyone reading this blog will know that the business continuity (BC) recovery plan is something organizations create to help them quickly restore their essential operations in the event of an outage, minimizing the impact on the company.

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BCM Basics: the Difference Between Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

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What often happens is, when the senior leadership sees how much it would cost to meet the lofty goals of the BC department, they realize that the damage of a longer outage might not be quite as great as they first thought—and that maybe their recovery goals don’t have to be quite so stringent.

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Rehearsing Plan B: The Importance of Mastering Your Workarounds

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Unprecedented outages occur all the time. Be prepared for pushback by people who say there’s no point in rehearsing a workaround because the primary method for doing that particular task will never go down. You might need to put on your teacher hat to help your colleagues understand why practicing manual workarounds is important.

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Gone With the Wind: 12 BCM Practices That Have Become Outdated 

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At the same time, a new need has developed: one for a place remote workers can go if they are no longer able to work at home (due to a power outage or whatever it might be). The everything-but-the-kitchen-sink recovery plan. In the age of remote work and the hybrid workplace, the need for such sites has contracted. The “What, Me Worry?”

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

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BCM Program Policy The program policy is a document that outlines all high-level aspects of the BCM Program implementation in an organization. The internal recovery plans of vendors and service providers must be taken into consideration. Decision points are to build, lease or procure an additional site. manufacturing facilities).