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(Un)Realistic Expectations

KingsBridge BCP

Even after a pandemic, endless weather incidents, outages and more, your customers and employees generally will have an “I need it, and I need it NOW” mindset. Sure, policies should be part of the solution to minimize these impacts. Everyone’s expectations of systems and services continue to rise.

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All About BIAs: A Guide to MHA Consulting’s Best BIA Resources

MHA Consulting

We write a lot about BIAs in our blog and ebooks, and no wonder: the business impact analysis is the cornerstone of a sound business continuity program. It helps them prioritize which of their processes and systems they should protect the most and restore the fastest in order to minimize the impact of an outage on the organization.

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7 Steps to Establishing a Sound Business Continuity Strategy 

MHA Consulting

Follow these seven steps to implement a BC strategy that can help you swiftly recover your business processes in the event of an outage. This will enable you to identify your biggest current gaps, putting you in a position to develop and document your basic plan and strategy.

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The Retro Revolution:  Why Manual Workarounds  Are a BC Must 

MHA Consulting

The scenario was, “A regional internet outage has occurred; you have no internet access to the outside world. However, we’re finding that with ransomware, network outages, and all the rest of our contemporary challenges, the need to have documented, tested manual workaround procedures is greater than ever. I wish them the best.

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The Times They Are a-Changin’: Adapting to Change as a BCM Professional

MHA Consulting

Organizations now have to contend with a heightened risk of drought, flooding, heat waves, wildfires, hurricanes, political unrest, global conflict, cyberattack, power outages, active shooters, supply chain disruptions, pandemic, social-media impacts, and all the rest. Documentation. Traditional BC documentation is shrinking.

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BCM Basics: the Difference Between Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

Theoretically, the business departments are free to say anything they want in terms of how quickly the business functions need to be brought back online in order to keep the impact of a disruption within acceptable levels. The standard way of arriving at these targets is by conducting a BIA, or business impact analysis.)

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Customer Value Story: Planning for the Unexpected

LogisManager

Their process for developing and updating their BCP initially involved holding in-person interviews with department heads to gather information about various impacts to their core processes in case of an outage: Who are their key team members? This lets them easily determine which processes need to be prioritized during an outage.

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