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Risk Management as a Career: A Guide for BCM Professionals

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For those with a suitable temperament and skill set, a career in risk management can be rewarding due to the field’s broad scope, consequential nature, and rising prominence. In this week’s post, we’ll look at what a risk manager does and the skills it takes to excel in this role. It’s a permanent ongoing activity.

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Why BCM and ERM Should Be BFFs 

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Sometimes questions arise about the relationship between the business continuity management (BCM) team and the enterprise risk management (ERM) department. The fact is, both units—as well as the organization—benefit when BCM and ERM are BFFs (or best friends forever, as the kids say).

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At Risk of Distraction: The Seductive Appeal of RMIS Software

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An emerging hot topic in business continuity and risk management is the software known as a risk management information system (RMIS). An RMIS can help an organization identify, assess, monitor, and mitigate risks, but often they merely seduce and distract companies that are not in a position to make proper use of them.

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How to Offload Your Risk to a Third Party

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Risk transference is one of the four main strategies organizations can use to mitigate risk. Try a Dose of Risk Management Wise organizations determine how much risk they will accept then make conscious efforts to bring their risk down below that threshold.

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An Introduction to FFIEC: BCM’s Gold Standard

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FFIEC is, of course, one of many standards that organizations can adopt and seek to come into alignment with to strengthen their BCM programs. However, of the five, the FFIEC Business Continuity Management booklet is widely regarded as the toughest and best. The Gold Standard FFIEC is the most aggressive standard in the U.S.

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The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk  

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Strengthening these elements of basic infrastructure is an efficient way of reducing risk and improving resiliency. How to Manage Residual Risk Managing residual risk is not a project; it is an ongoing, cyclical process. The post The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk appeared first on MHA Consulting.

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How a Risk Maturity Model Can Increase Your Company’s Resilience

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In today’s post, we’ll look at how such a model can help an organization understand its risks, mitigate the risks that threaten its core services, and integrate business continuity with enterprise risk management, thus boosting resilience overall. What Is a Risk Maturity Model?