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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. For business continuity newcomers, few topics are as confusing as the difference between business continuity and IT disaster recovery. Let’s go over them.

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An Introduction to FFIEC: BCM’s Gold Standard

MHA Consulting

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. The Gold Standard FFIEC is the most aggressive standard in the U.S. marketplace.

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Lessons from a Botched BIA: Learning from One Company’s Mistakes

MHA Consulting

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. The consultant who had conducted it (over the course of 18 months) had no prior experience working with a manufacturing company. Fine, we told them. four hours).

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

Once implemented, a Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program will support your organization's value statement and its mission. Regardless of the industry (non-profit organizations, professional services companies, manufacturing, public sector, etc.),

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

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 7 - IT Disaster Recovery Plan. Section 9 - BCM Program Maintenance. 9 – BCM Program Maintenance.

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The Common Mistake of “Inviting by Title”

MHA Consulting

What’s more, we run into it across the whole range of organizations MHA works with, from healthcare to manufacturing to education and beyond. The C-Suite and other high-ranking executives are usually the primary SMEs if the engagement has to do with program governance or crisis management, where the senior management is the front line.

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All About BIAs: A Guide to MHA Consulting’s Best BIA Resources

MHA Consulting

Related on MHA Consulting: Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja Why the BIA Is Important The business impact analysis or BIA is one of the topics Richard Long and I write about the most here on “Roadmap to Resiliency.” Which would cause the greatest impact if it was down for six hours: Manufacturing? Customer Service?