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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. However, there is one aspect of doing BCM that is much better and easier than it was when I was getting started 25 years ago.

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How to Create an Emergency Response Plan

MHA Consulting

Due to the rise in work-from-home, the last few years have seen a serious degradation in organizations’ emergency planning and response capability. In today’s post, we’ll look at why it’s important to have a solid emergency response plan and explain how to create one. Develop and write the emergency response plan.

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Testing, Testing: Our Best Blogs on BC Testing and Mock Disaster Exercises

MHA Consulting

They can benefit organizations by helping keep the recovery team personnel sharp and making business continuity part of the organization’s culture. Many companies limit their disaster recovery drills to tabletop exercises, which are the least realistic and least demanding type of BC drills.

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Testing, Testing: Our Best Blogs on BC Testing and Mock Disaster Exercises

MHA Consulting

They can benefit organizations by helping keep the recovery team personnel sharp and making business continuity part of the organization’s culture. Many companies limit their disaster recovery drills to tabletop exercises, which are the least realistic and least demanding type of BC drills.

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Why Every BC Professional Should Become a Gap Hunter

MHA Consulting

But one thing we find a lot is that organizations with elaborate BC programs—they’ve done lots of BIAs and have extensive plans and other documentation—are often not nearly as resilient as they think they are. The issue, more often than not, is that their operations and response plans are riddled with unidentified gaps.

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Introduction to Business Continuity Planning

Stratogrid Advisory

BCP is one of the components of the Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program which should be implemented in organizations of all sizes. The implementation of a BCM Program could be a rather complex and lengthy process, which largely depends on the organization’s size. Regardless of the industry (e.g. The industry governance.

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The Art of Explaining: MHA’s Best Crisis Communications Resources    

MHA Consulting

The rise of the internet and social media has made crisis communications more challenging—and more critical—than ever. In today’s post, we’ll list and link to some of MHA’s best-ever resources on the art of communicating during a crisis. We’ve written a lot about crisis communications over the years. Keep it simple.