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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. In today’s post we’ll look at what the slots on a BCM team should be and the traits and skillsets needed in the team’s staff and leadership.

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Navigating Resilience: How to Create a BCM Roadmap 

MHA Consulting

The business continuity management roadmap is a simple but powerful tool that can help organizations strengthen their BCM programs and enhance their resilience. In today’s post, we’ll lay out an eight-step process your company can use to create its own, customized BCM roadmap. This is what a BCM roadmap is and does.

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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. 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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Why BCM and ERM Should Be BFFs 

MHA Consulting

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). BCM is more tactical and operations-focused.

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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: Inherent Risk vs. Residual Risk

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. If you spend any … The post BCM Basics: Inherent Risk vs. Residual Risk appeared first on MHA Consulting. by Richard Long.

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BCM and ERM: What’s the Difference?

Castellan

What is Business Continuity Management (BCM)? Business continuity management helps you manage and mitigate effects of a risk event, which includes planning for ways to mitigate risks across your enterprise. The post BCM and ERM: What’s the Difference? Contact a Castellan advisor today and we’ll be happy to help.

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