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Who’s the Boss? Successful Risk Mitigation Requires Centralized Leadership

MHA Consulting

Many companies spend millions of dollars implementing risk mitigation controls but are kept from getting their money’s worth by a disconnected, piecemeal approach. Successful risk mitigation requires that a central authority supervise controls following a coherent strategy. Related on MHA Consulting: Global Turmoil Making You Ill?

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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. Residual Risk There are two main kinds of risk when it comes to organizational activities and business continuity: inherent risk and residual risk. Inherent risk is the danger intrinsic to any business activity or operation.

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Leading by (Bad) Example: Companies in the News Show What Not to Do 

MHA Consulting

Related on MHA Consulting: The Art of Explaining: MHA’s Best Crisis Communications Resources We business continuity professionals spend a lot of time telling our colleagues and clients about the negative impacts an organization can experience if it gives short shrift to the need to become resilient and plan for outages.

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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. This is a subsection of Ready.gov devoted specifically to the needs of business. Other BCM professionals.

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Thoughts On The Coming New Year

Plan B Consulting

I felt the first bulletin of this year should look forward to what I see are the issues for business continuity professionals over the next year. Cyber attacks will continue unabated but perhaps aimed at less well-known organisations. Power outages. So, what do we have to look forward to (or not)?

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Reviewing the Five Types of Risk 

MHA Consulting

The wise organization develops strategies and plans to mitigate and prepare for all five types of risk. In one respect, COVID continues to distort people’s approach to risk. Today many business continuity professionals are worrying disproportionately about the possibility of another pandemic, to the exclusion of other threats.

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Thoughts On The Coming New Year

Plan B Consulting

For the first bulletin of the year, I felt it should look forward to what I see are the issues for business continuity professionals over the next year. Cyber attacks will continue unabated but perhaps aimed at less well-known organisations. Power outages. Weather extremes. Global recession.