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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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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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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.” Where risk tolerance is high, controls can be relaxed.

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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. Unprecedented outages occur all the time. This is to be commended.

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The Human Factor: BCM Team Roles and Skill Requirements 

MHA Consulting

Business and Disaster Recovery. Do they understand the key components of business recovery (plan development, recovery strategies, testing, maintenance, etc.) Do they understand the key components of crisis management (team, plan, mock disasters, emergency notification system, etc.)

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

We hope that this guide will help demystify the business continuity planning process and give you a few practical tips and guidelines on how to implement it in your organization. Note : Some sections of this article were previously published in our blog archives. Decision points are to build, lease or procure an additional site.

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

We hope that this guide will help demystify the business continuity planning process and give you a few practical tips and guidelines on how to implement it in your organization. Note : Some sections of this article were previously published in our blog archives. Section 2 - Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program Implementation.