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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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Getting Started with Enterprise Risk Management

MHA Consulting

In today’s post, we’ll take a look at how organizations can get started using Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) to reduce their exposure and improve their resilience. ERM is all about reducing. Many that do incorporate risk management in their operations do so in a half-hearted way. It all comes down to details.

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Risk Management as a Career: A Guide for BCM Professionals

MHA Consulting

For those with a suitable temperament and skill set, a career in risk management can be rewarding due to the field’s broad scope, consequential nature, and rising prominence. In this week’s post, we’ll look at what a risk manager does and the skills it takes to excel in this role. It’s a permanent ongoing activity.

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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

Review of Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management, e dited by Allessandra Jerolleman and William L. Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management. He has since served in over thirty nations worldwide as consultant for United Nations, U.S. Emerald Publishing Ltd.

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These 8 Risk Domains Are the Meat and Potatoes of Risk Management 

MHA Consulting

As a practical activity, enterprise risk management (ERM) centers on eight distinct risk domains, some strategic and some operational. Risk management is not one-size-fits all. Exactly what those domains are will be detailed in a moment. First, there are three points that are worth mentioning to put this subject in context.

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Risk Management Process- Part 1: Overview

Zerto

Risk management describes how a business identifies, analyzes, and responds to threats and risk factors that impact its profitability, viability, and strategic goals. Risk management attempts to control future threats by planning preemptively and deploying effective risk-control measures.

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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. All you have to do is take the initiative and go get it. State, county, and city Emergency Management offices.

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