Bernstein Crisis Management

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Crucial Role of Rapid Crisis Response in Effective Crisis Management In the fast-paced world we live in, crises can sometimes arise unexpectedly and escalate rapidly, posing significant threats to businesses, reputations, and even safety. Why Rapid Crisis Response Matters A crisis, by nature, demands swift action.

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MHA Consulting

MAY 11, 2023

In today’s post, we list, link to, and sum up MHA’s best blogs on recovery testing, IT/disaster tests, and mock disaster exercises. Tabletop exercises help identify gaps in plans, processes, technologies, equipment, and dependencies, facilitate unannounced tests, simulate collaboration, and allow the training of secondary staff.

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Bernstein Crisis Management

APRIL 3, 2023

Navigating the Unexpected: How a Crisis Communications Agency Can Protect Your Brand As a business owner, it can be easy to get caught up in the day-to-day operations of your company. However, it’s important to remember that unexpected crises can occur at any moment, and it’s crucial to have a plan in place to protect your brand.

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Bernstein Crisis Management

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Crisis Communication Strategy: First 5 Things To Do When a Crisis Breaks A major part of any crisis communication strategy is doing the preparedness and prevention work before you find yourself facing true crisis-level events that threaten to harm people or property, seriously interrupt operations and/or damage reputation.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 16, 2023

The rise of the internet and social media has made crisis communications more challenging—and more critical—than ever. In today’s post, we’ll list and link to some of MHA’s best-ever resources on the art of communicating during a crisis. We’ve written a lot about crisis communications over the years.

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Bernstein Crisis Management

JANUARY 4, 2023

5 Online Reputation Management Tips Every Business Should Know. Before you can even begin to consider how to best protect and grow your reputation, you need to get familiar with one of the basics of modern crisis management – monitoring the internet and social media. Learn which online reputation management tools work for you.

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Bernstein Crisis Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Why It Pays To Educate Employees On Crisis Management. Every employee in your organization — and I’m really talking every employee — has a role to play in crisis prevention and management. So I’m going to explain why it pays to have every employee receive some level of crisis management education.

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Bernstein Crisis Management

JANUARY 5, 2022

Turns out you can “just” do crisis management… A long time ago, in a strange and wonderful galaxy known as Los Angeles County, intrepid public relations expert Jonathan Bernstein took a leap of faith. Twenty eight years and about ten million twists and turns later and I feel I can safely say that was a good decision!

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Pure Storage

MAY 7, 2024

Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference? by Pure Storage Blog When the unexpected happens, poorly prepared businesses run the risk that everything could come to a screeching halt. What Is Disaster Recovery Planning? What Is Business Continuity Planning?

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Bernstein Crisis Management

JANUARY 26, 2023

Crisis Communications Firm’s Tips For Navigating Tough Conversations The occasional tough conversation is a part of doing business. If this thought makes you break out in sweat you’re not alone, which is why we’re here with our crisis communications firm’s top tips for navigating tough conversations: Have a plan.

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Bernstein Crisis Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Yet surprisingly few have meaningful and up-to-date incident response plans (IRPs) in place to manage and mitigate this threat. Such plans, if properly designed and updated, can spell the difference between strong mitigation and recovery from an incident and prolonged, crisis-driven recovery or no recovery at all.

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Bernstein Crisis Management

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

5 Crisis-Causing Customer Service Mistakes To Avoid. Experts agree that consistently strong customer service is a huge part of preventing otherwise-avoidable crises, which is why today we’d like to discuss what we’ll call The Top 5 Crisis-Causing Mistakes in Customer Service. In fact, especially when they were having a bad day!

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MHA Consulting

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

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. Business Continuity Manager: The individual with direct responsibility for the business continuity program.

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Erwood Group

JULY 12, 2022

Everything You Need to Know About Business Continuity Plans. Business Continuity Plans. Chances are if you’re visiting this page, you are new to the concept of Business Continuity Plans (BCPs) and business continuity overall. You may have just been asked if you have business continuity plans by a current or potential customer.

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

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. However, relatively few are mindful of the strategic side of crisis management.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 25, 2024

This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. The best way to get at what they mean is by telling the story of where they came from. The terms business continuity and business resilience are superficially similar and a world apart.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

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. Preparedness Planning for Business. Nowadays, we are in a golden age when it comes to obtaining quality information on doing BC.

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PagerDuty

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Bad news first—there’s always another crisis or existential threat to your organization on the horizon. If you don’t have an established Crisis Response process and team in place, you’re running a high risk of failure. We do this by enabling our employees to act in moments of crisis.

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MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In today’s post we’ll look at the right way to build an IT/DR team, focusing on what roles need to be represented to ensure that the organization’s various computing services each receive an appropriate level of protection. Inadequate or nonexistent IT/DR planning is a problem that rears its ugly head everywhere we go.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 19, 2023

By identifying potential risks, developing plans to mitigate those risk and establishing effective crisis management protocols, organisations can minimise disruption, ensure business continuity and enhance their reputation. However, I will discuss what I think are the top fo ur key components and their importance.

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National Fire Protection Association

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Chemical plants are complex facilities that often handle hazardous materials and if not properly managed during a hurricane can pose serious risks to the people working at the facility and nearby communities. This year, NOAA has stated that there’s a 30 percent chance of an above-average-intensity hurricane season.

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Erwood Group

JANUARY 28, 2024

Unfortunately, common myths often cloud the perception of what business continuity truly entails. In times of crisis, a comprehensive business continuity plan ensures that every facet of the organization is resilient. Myth 2: Business Continuity Plans Are Only for Large Enterprises.

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MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. Readers of this week’s blog will never again be in doubt about the meaning of these two critical terms. Sometimes the form business continuity management (BCM) is used.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 12, 2024

This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. Introducing BCaaS What is BCaas? Many people are familiar with Software as a Service (SaaS), the cloud-computing model in which software applications are delivered over the internet.

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Pure Storage

MARCH 7, 2022

You should also be fine-tuning patch management programs , practicing excellent data hygiene , and conducting regular security awareness training. You should also be fine-tuning patch management programs , practicing excellent data hygiene , and conducting regular security awareness training. Be prepared if an intrusion occurs.

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Zerto

APRIL 11, 2024

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) has become a vital component of modern business continuity planning. In this blog post, we’ll explore key considerations to help you make an informed decision when selecting a DRaaS provider. Therefore, reliability and availability should be top priorities when evaluating providers.

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On Solve

JANUARY 14, 2022

What does it take? Proactive preparation and the resources to put your plan in motion are at the core. What is your plan to isolate critical events and prevent them from escalating and/or creating derivative emergencies? Failing To Plan Is Planning To Fail, Forrester Consulting, October 2021 2.

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National Fire Protection Association

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

What happens when incompatible mixtures combine at manufacturing or storage facilities? Have you ever thought about this on a larger scale though? In a small Kentucky town last month, three people were severely injured and one killed in an explosion. It all started when a waste company began pumping sludge out of a local plant.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 10, 2023

The irony is, in many cases, it is the mid-level, hands-on managers who are best positioned to provide the knowledge we need to complete the engagement. What’s more, we run into it across the whole range of organizations MHA works with, from healthcare to manufacturing to education and beyond.

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Castellan

JANUARY 10, 2022

This is part 2 of a two-part series exploring the resilience movement, how it can positively impact modern business, and the roles executives and key stakeholders play in ensuring operational resilience while managing efficiencies and adapting to changing environments with an expanding threat landscape.

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Erwood Group

MARCH 20, 2023

That’s a sobering statistic that underscores the importance of having a solid disaster recovery plan in place. Learn about the 10 Disaster Recovery Plan Mistakes to Avoid for Your Business. In this article, we’ll explore some of the most common disaster recovery plan mistakes and provide tips to help you avoid them.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 9, 2023

We write a lot about BIAs in our blog and ebooks, and no wonder: the business impact analysis is the cornerstone of a sound business continuity program. This high level of interest in BIAs is completely warranted since the BIA is the lynchpin of a good business continuity management (BCM) program and hence of a resilient organization.

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MHA Consulting

JULY 7, 2023

It’s never very hard to find examples of companies whose casual approach to resiliency and crisis management has come back to bite them. What struck me about Ticketmaster’s response to the incident were two things: how unprepared it was for an outage of this type and the clumsiness of its initial public response.

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Castellan

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

If you’re still using spreadsheets or word processing documents printed and stored in stacks of binders to manage your business continuity program and related plans, then you may be setting your program up for unforeseen obstacles that could negatively affect your program success. What is business continuity software?

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Plan B Consulting

JULY 9, 2021

In this week’s bulletin, Charlie discusses the debate around the definition of crisis management and what he thinks crisis management should cover. This book states that crisis management should only be used for unprecedented or extraordinary events.

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Pure Storage

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In a previous blog post on business continuity and disaster recovery (DR), we shared how the City of New Orleans adopted ActiveDR™ for their DR requirements and realized impactful business results through its simplicity and innovation. What Is ActiveDR? Complex solutions require more resources and staff training.” –CTO,

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On Solve

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Steve Goldman discusses the importance of testing your business resiliency and related response plans. An exercise of the elements of a Business Resiliency, Crisis Management, Crisis Communications or IT Disaster Recovery (BR/CM/CC/DR) plan is an important aspect of an organization’s emergency preparedness.

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