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BCM Basics: Business Continuity vs. Business Resilience 

MHA Consulting

This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. It focused on identifying the most critical business processes and developing plans to keep those processes going or quickly restore them in the event of an outage.

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The Human Factor: BCM Team Roles and Skill Requirements 

MHA Consulting

Knowing what roles should be represented on the business continuity management (BCM) team and what kind of people should fill them is an overlooked key to success in making organizations resilient. The roles that should be represented on a company’s BCM team change over time depending on the maturity of the program.

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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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BCM Basics: the Difference Between Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. Sometimes the form business continuity management (BCM) is used. The activity of crisis management is also included under the umbrella though that tends to be treated separately.)

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Write or Wrong: Five Common BCM Documentation Mistakes 

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It typically exists alongside plans for crisis management, security response, and other areas. These may be different than the workarounds used in a non-cyber application outage. It helps organizations identify gaps, train their teams, and respond effectively during outages. Common Mistake No.

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Powering On: How to Be Ready for a Power Outage

BCM METRICS

Extreme weather is making power outages more frequent, and work from home has not made the issue go away. government has concluded that climate change and extreme weather are raising the incidence of power outages. The post Powering On: How to Be Ready for a Power Outage appeared first on BCMMETRICS. Meanwhile, […].

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More Than Meets the Eye: The Hidden Benefits of BC Planning 

MHA Consulting

Related on BCMMETRICS: Don’t Give Up the Ship: Demonstrating the Benefits of Rigorous Crisis Management Training Benefits That Go Beyond BC The main purpose of a business continuity management (BCM) program is to help an organization get through disruptions with the least possible impact to its operations, reputation, stakeholders, and bottom line.

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