MHA Consulting

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

MHA Consulting, a proven leader in Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery Planning, is thrilled to announce the continuation of its longstanding partnership with a prominent not-for-profit healthcare system operating medical centers, critical access hospitals, and medical clinics in Washington, Oregon, and Alaska.

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Many organizations struggle with establishing a sound business continuity strategy, a foundational aspect of a strong BC program. Follow these seven steps to implement a BC strategy that can help you swiftly recover your business processes in the event of an outage. Business Continuity Manager. Team Member(s).

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Stratogrid Advisory

MAY 11, 2020

Top reasons why Business Continuity Planning is ignored! The business is always busy, and because of this, it comes up with a myriad of justifications for ignoring Business Continuity Planning efforts. Top justifications why Business Continuity Plan is not implemented.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JULY 31, 2019

Is Business Continuity Planning Dead? Last Updated on May 31, 2020 by Alex Jankovic Reading Time: 3 minutes The death of the business continuity planning and profession has been predicted quite a few times over the last decade. Not really! Here are some of them: 1.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JULY 31, 2019

Is Business Continuity Planning Dead? The death of the business continuity planning and profession has been predicted quite a few times over the last decade. The truth is that business continuity planning will likely never die. Not really! Last Updated on May 31, 2020 by Alex Jankovic.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 15, 2022

Almost every business continuity management program has gaps that are well-known to the BCM office but never addressed, usually because closing them would be hard. However, in many cases, tackling … The post Eat the Frog: Tackling the Tough BCM Challenges You Habitually Put Off appeared first on MHA Consulting.

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SRM

MARCH 25, 2020

Those with high-level business continuity plans in place will be putting elements of these into action. For many, however, it is time to dust off what plans they have and update them to take account of the current threats. Business Continuity Plan Checklist . Business Impact Assessment (BIA).

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MHA Consulting

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Having quality documentation is an important part of a sound business continuity management program, but it’s not the most important part. The very first thing every organization needs is a sound recovery strategy and plan. But quality documentation is a close second.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 18, 2022

Many organizations seem to go out of their way to provide business continuity training to everyone—except the front-line workers who would most likely be the ones tasked with responding to … The post Omission Accomplished: When Front-Line Workers Are Excluded from BCM Training appeared first on MHA Consulting.

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Erwood Group

JANUARY 28, 2024

Debunking the Myths of Business Continuity Unlocking the Truth: Navigating 20 Myths About Business Continuity Introduction: In the dynamic landscape of modern business, the importance of business continuity cannot be overstated. Myth 2: Business Continuity Plans Are Only for Large Enterprises.

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MHA Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

The same thing is true of organizations and business continuity professionals. Right now, the pace of change in the broader society is as fast as I’ve ever seen it, and that looks to continue for the foreseeable future. I’ll explain what that is at the end. Operational resilience. These concepts remain as valid as ever.,

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

One challenge familiar to every business continuity management professional is dealing with the business units’ attitude that business continuity is the BCM office’s responsibility, not theirs.

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MHA Consulting

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Business continuity … The post Learning the Local Culture: BCM Pros Need to Suit Their Programs to the Locality appeared first on MHA Consulting. It’s human nature for people to take the assumptions of their culture for granted, not realizing that people elsewhere might look at things in a radically different way.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 17, 2021

Many organizations bring great energy to the job of creating new business continuity plans, then they put them on a shelf and allow the passage of time to make them … The post Staying Current: Why You Need to Keep Your BCM Plans Up to Date appeared first on MHA Consulting.

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MHA Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The year 2022 saw the tapering off of the pandemic, the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, an ongoing wave of cyberattacks, continuing supply chain woes, and a renewed focus by organizations on identifying and protecting their most essential business processes. Read on to learn about the BCM year in review.

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MHA Consulting

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The business continuity management professional is unlikely to play a hands-on role in managing social media during a crisis. However, the BCM pro has a key part to play as … The post The BCM Pro’s Role in Managing Social Media During a Crisis appeared first on MHA Consulting.

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MHA Consulting

JULY 29, 2021

You can’t have a good business continuity management or BCM program without the core elements of BIAs, TRAs, recovery plans, and exercises, but it’s possible that the most important element … The post The Best Policy: The Core Element of a Good BCM Program Is Honesty appeared first on MHA Consulting.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 10, 2023

As business continuity consultants, we at MHA often encounter a situation we call “inviting by title,” which is when our contact at the client company has us meet with high-level company executives rather than mid-level employees with detailed tactical knowledge. or “What systems does finance use to execute process X?”).

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Stratogrid Advisory

JANUARY 29, 2019

Not another BCM Program audit? Last Updated on May 31, 2020 by Alex Jankovic Reading Time: 4 minutes Another Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program audit. At its core, an audit is simply an assessment used to discover which areas the business will require a focus in the future.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JANUARY 29, 2019

Not another BCM Program audit? Another Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program audit. Some organizations think of audits as tedious, and often unnecessary, accounting procedures, rather than as a powerful business tool that can be used to improve the organization’s capabilities. BCM Program Audits.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 23, 2023

FFIEC in our industry is best known for providing the business continuity management standard that U.S. FFIEC is, of course, one of many standards that organizations can adopt and seek to come into alignment with to strengthen their BCM programs. For this reason, it is often referred to as the Gold Standard of BCM standards.

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Virtual Corporation

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fifty-one percent of organizations surveyed by Mercer Consulting were caught without business continuity plans when the current COVID pandemic erupted. Low priority and insufficient investment in business continuity continue to jeopardize the business resiliency of many companies.

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Castellan

JUNE 2, 2021

business continuity industry saw an average of about 20-25 new job postings each week , with about 30-35 on average internationally. While other industries around the globe struggled to adapt—and many experienced unprecedented job losses—business continuity managed to thrive and grow. Business Continuity Job Trends.

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everbridge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Disaster Recovery vs. Business Continuity Planning. While it may seem like a disaster recovery plan and a business continuity plan are the same, businesses must consider their differences. A successful business continuity plan must begin with the development of each smaller supporting facet.

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In terms of bang for the buck, not all business continuity activities are created equal. Related on MHA Consulting: The Retro Revolution: Why Manual Workarounds Are a BC Must Rehearsing Your Plan B Due to the complexity of BC methodology, many aspects of the field have the potential to become time sinks.

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In today’s bulletin, Charlie discusses his thoughts on the industry that is business continuity and how he believes COVID has negatively impacted it. Nothing particular in the news piqued my interest this week, therefore, I decided to give my thoughts on ‘Is Business Continuity One of the Victims of COVID?’.

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In today’s bulletin, Charlie discusses his thoughts on the industry that is business continuity and how he believes COVID has negatively impacted it. Nothing particular in the news piqued my interest this week, therefore, I decided to give my thoughts on ‘Is Business Continuity One of the Victims of COVID?’.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2023

Companies must ensure their threat assessments and plans reflect today’s weird new realities. Related on MHA Consulting: Risk Assessment: The Best Way to Identify Your Biggest Threats Weird Weather and BCM The past twenty years have seen a dramatic increase in the number of extreme weather events worldwide.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 12, 2024

This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. Business Continuity as a Service (BCaaS) is based on the SaaS concept, but it differs from it in several key respects, as we’ll explore in today’s post.

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In today’s bulletin, Charlie discusses his thoughts on the industry that is business continuity and how he believes COVID has negatively impacted it. Nothing particular in the news piqued my interest this week, therefore, I decided to give my thoughts on ‘Is Business Continuity One of the Victims of COVID?’.

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MHA Consulting

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The best way to do this is by making sure business continuity is integrated into a robust information security governance framework. Continuity plans and actions need to be reviewed to make sure they conform with infosec requirements. Third-party controls and assessment. Remote work polices and oversight.

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Solutions Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Book Title: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for InfoSec Managers. Rittinghouse is a management consultant for large enterprises as well as a member of the Federal Communication Commission’s Homeland Security Network Reliability and Interoperability Council Focus Group on Cybersecurity. ” GO TO BOOK.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 22, 2023

Business continuity professionals who want to make their organizations more resilient should make a conscious effort to become gap hunters. A List of Common Gaps MHA Consulting works with clients of all types and sizes, from Fortune 100 companies on down, and across the broadest possible range of industries and sectors.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 10, 2021

This week I look at why building capability is important for implementing your business continuity plan. In this bulletin, I would like to explore some ideas I have about business continuity capabilities. Capability as used by the UK forces My idea of business continuity capability came from the forces.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2024

Most organizations recognize the importance of having a sound business continuity recovery plan, but many plans are undermined by the presence of overlooked weaknesses. In today’s post, we’ll look at 10 mistakes that companies commonly make in developing and implementing their BC plans.

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MHA Consulting

MAY 11, 2023

In business continuity, testing of all types can lay claim to a rare distinction: it is simultaneously one of the most important parts of any program, and one of the most neglected. They can benefit organizations by helping keep the recovery team personnel sharp and making business continuity part of the organization’s culture.

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MHA Consulting

MAY 11, 2023

In business continuity, testing of all types can lay claim to a rare distinction: it is simultaneously one of the most important parts of any program, and one of the most neglected. They can benefit organizations by helping keep the recovery team personnel sharp and making business continuity part of the organization’s culture.

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