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BCM Basics: the Difference Between Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

The activity of crisis management is also included under the umbrella though that tends to be treated separately.) Business continuity is associated with the recovery of the business processes and all of the requirements needed to keep those processes operational in a timeframe consistent with minimizing the impacts to stakeholders.

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Lessons from a Botched BIA: Learning from One Company’s Mistakes

MHA Consulting

In one recent engagement, MHA was tasked with picking up the pieces after a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) conducted by another consulting firm suffered a crack-up. The company—a global manufacturing concern—said they had a BIA in hand and they wanted MHA to use it as the basis for implementing their BC program across the organization.

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Lessons learned from conducting BIA’s in manufacturing

Plan B Consulting

I have been talking about doing a Business Impact Analysis (BIA), on the building manufacturing plants in the Philippines, where I am presently working. I have found that with manufacturing, to make the BIA meaningful, it required a substantial adjustment of my methodology.

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Lessons learned from conducting BIA’s in manufacturing

Plan B Consulting

I have been talking about doing a Business Impact Analysis (BIA), on the building manufacturing plants in the Philippines, where I am presently working. I have found that with manufacturing, to make the BIA meaningful, it required a substantial adjustment of my methodology.

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Introduction to Business Continuity Planning

Stratogrid Advisory

non-profit organizations, professional services companies, manufacturing facilities, etc.), This statement is quite a mouthful, but it boils down to the identification of organizational threats, managing their impacts and building response strategies to protect key resources. Regardless of the industry (e.g. Where do you start?

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The Common Mistake of “Inviting by Title”

MHA Consulting

What’s more, we run into it across the whole range of organizations MHA works with, from healthcare to manufacturing to education and beyond. Too often, the project managers leave out those people (at least initially) and only include members of the C-Suite or other high-ranking executives.

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What is Business Continuity?

Erwood Group

Business Impact Analysis. While business continuity is often looked at as a cost center in that it doesn’t directly attribute revenue to the business, it is an extremely important activity that reduces potential and real losses in revenue in several ways. This brings us to conducting an in-depth Business Impact Analysis.