MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. They soon find the field contains an abundance of specialist terms such as inherent risk , mitigation controls , and recovery time objective.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

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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Bernstein Crisis Management

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Therefore, a dedicated strategy steered by a crisis PR firm is not a luxury but a necessity. The Mandate of a Crisis PR Firm Planning and Strategy : Crafting a comprehensive crisis management blueprint tailored to potential business-specific risks. A restoration pathway post-crisis, ensuring the brand remains trustworthy.

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Bernstein Crisis Management

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Crisis Communication Examples – The Good and the…Not So Good In the realm of public relations and brand management, crisis communication plays a critical role. A well-handled crisis can significantly mitigate damage to a brand’s reputation, while a poorly managed one can amplify the negative impact.

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Bernstein Crisis Management

APRIL 3, 2023

That’s where a crisis communications agency comes in. Introduction to Crisis Communications Agencies A crisis communications agency is a team of experts who specialize in managing and mitigating the impact of a crisis on a brand’s reputation.

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MHA Consulting

APRIL 27, 2024

Our commitment also explains why I find the tendency I want to discuss today so unfortunate, and why I’d like to make a suggestion aimed at mitigating it. Here’s how: Ensure that senior management knows absolutely nothing about business continuity. Finally, explain and illustrate with a diagram the business continuity life cycle.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 25, 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. Other components include risk management, crisis management, operational resilience, supply chain resilience, and financial resilience, among others.

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Erwood Group

JANUARY 28, 2024

Training, testing and exercises are essential components of business continuity, disaster recovery and crisis management programs. While there are associated costs, they are a fraction of the potential losses incurred during a crisis. Myth 18: Training and Testing Programs are Costly and Ineffective.

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Bernstein Crisis Management

JUNE 26, 2023

Planning to Reduce Crisis Overload ‍Image Source: FreeImages In today’s fast-paced world, organizations face a multitude of potential crises that can disrupt their operations and reputation, and the sheer volume and variety of these crises can often lead to a sense of uncertainty.

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Plan B Consulting

JUNE 7, 2016

Examples of this can be found within articles by Paul Robertson FBCI entitled, ‘Return on investment for crisis management’ or, perhaps, ‘ Dear Chairman, how much do you like your job?’ Other articles put forward a straightforward business case for the savings which can be made by implementing business continuity.

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Plan B Consulting

JUNE 7, 2016

Examples of this can be found within articles by Paul Robertson FBCI entitled, ‘Return on investment for crisis management’ or, perhaps, ‘ Dear Chairman, how much do you like your job?’ Other articles put forward a straightforward business case for the savings which can be made by implementing business continuity.

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Plan B Consulting

JUNE 7, 2017

Having identified a risk, other disciplines within resilience can help mitigate the risk and provide ongoing monitoring. This stops risks being managed in silos and mitigation measures in one area potentially increasing risk in another. There are many synergies between all these roles and each one can support the rest.

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Plan B Consulting

JUNE 7, 2017

At the moment, there doesn’t seem to be a standard with regard to what roles might exist under the resilience umbrella, but they could include: Risk Business Continuity Health and Safety IT DR Information Security Cyber Crisis Management Physical Security Horizon Scanning/Corporate Intelligence Environmental.

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BCM METRICS

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Extreme weather is making power outages more frequent, and work from home has not made the issue go away. In today’s blog, we’ll look at how you can help prepare your organization for a failure of electrical power. government has concluded that climate change and extreme weather are raising the incidence of power outages. Meanwhile, […].

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Plan B Consulting

JUNE 7, 2017

So, for our business continuity managers there are lots of threats to plan for, mitigate and prepare the organisation’s response to. In the diagram above, you can see some of the issues which need to be managed after the emergency response phase is over.

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Castellan

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

From there, you can use that information to prioritize what’s most important and then focus on mitigation and remediation. By understanding your impact tolerance, you can better understand the impact single points of failure and vulnerabilities could have on your organization.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 3, 2020

Once implemented, a Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program will support your organization's value statement and its mission. The implementation of a Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program can be a complicated and lengthy process, which directly depends on the organization's size and complexity.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 3, 2020

Once implemented, a Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program will support your organization's value statement and its mission. Section 2 - Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program Implementation. Section 9 - BCM Program Maintenance. 2 – BCM Program Implementation. Section 3 - Risk Assessment.

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