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The Science and Art of Writing a Recovery Plan

MHA Consulting

There are two main aspects to writing a business recovery plan: The science of knowing what to include and the art of writing the content. Today’s blog takes a look … The post The Science and Art of Writing a Recovery Plan appeared first on MHA Consulting.

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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.

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Planning to Fail: 10 Common Mistakes Companies Make with Their BC Plans

MHA Consulting

Related on MHA Consulting: Sounds Like a Plan: The Elements of a Modern Recovery Plan Everyone reading this blog will know that the business continuity (BC) recovery plan is something organizations create to help them quickly restore their essential operations in the event of an outage, minimizing the impact on the company.

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Judgement day

Oz's Business Continuity Blog

The last few weeks have been quite busy – and, at times, a teeny bit stressful. I’ve prepared and facilitated four crisis management and business recovery exercises (two of which included actors and journalists and mock TV and radio news […].

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The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk  

MHA Consulting

Reducing risk is at the heart of everything we do as business continuity professionals. This week’s blog post will spell out the key concepts relating to this all-important goal; call it “The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk.” For a more detailed explanation of how to calculate residual risk, see this post by MHA CEO Michael Herrera.

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BCM Basics: The Strategic Side of Crisis Management  

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. Most companies have a pretty good handle on the tactical side of crisis management.

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Rehearsing Plan B: The Importance of Mastering Your Workarounds

MHA Consulting

Closing the Circle Most of the people who read this blog work for organizations that have developed recovery plans that incorporate manual workarounds for their mission-critical business processes. And not only making sure you have these things, but validating your capability by doing the task. This is to be commended.