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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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BCM Basics: the Difference Between Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

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. The standard way of arriving at these targets is by conducting a BIA, or business impact analysis.)

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An Introduction to FFIEC: BCM’s Gold Standard

MHA Consulting

It has greater governance, risk assessment, business impact analysis, planning, testing, and maintenance requirements than any other standard. And its focus on continuous improvement helps ensure that organizations are always prepared to respond to disruptions and minimize their impact.

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Introduction to Business Continuity Planning

Stratogrid Advisory

non-profit organizations, professional services companies, manufacturing facilities, etc.), Traditionally, organizations start with the development of BCM Program policy and execution of a risk assessment and a business impact analysis (BIA). Applications and software used across the organization are not documented.

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What is Business Continuity?

Erwood Group

Business Impact Analysis. One of the methods we use here at the Erwood Group is to provide our clients with a Financial Impact Analysis that allows them to visualize the monetary and economic value and utility of implementing a business continuity program. This brings us to conducting an in-depth Business Impact Analysis.

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Everything You Need to Know About Business Continuity Plans

Erwood Group

Business Impact Analysis Key Findings. Loss of Technology: Loss of technology addresses the loss of one or more core critical technologies including, applications, data, data center, and network, hosted and delivered by the Technology Department. Business Impact Assessment. External contacts. Risk Assessment Key Findings.

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Are Cyber Attacks the Next Big Threat for Operational Resilience?

Castellan

Critical Systems and Applications. One of the biggest challenges for organizations, especially when it comes to a range of technologies and cloud-hosted services, is they don’t have a full understanding of all the systems, software, and applications in use (or dormant) within their organization or how and where they’re used.