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Post-Pandemic Business Continuity Recovery Strategies

FEI

I often lead crisis management drills for one of our customers in the hospitality industry. It wasn’t just small business that took a major hit during the pandemic. All this leads to the question: How do you continue to respond to crises with a skeleton staff? And continue to test your emergency response plan.

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Did Your Emergency Response Team Survive the Pandemic?

FEI

This coordinated response not only allowed for planning discussions to occur but also for team members to provide quick check-ins on their stress. When the COVID-19 pandemic was initially identified as a crisis, our emergency and incident response teams were functioning in their usual brick-and-mortal locations.

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How to Create an Emergency Response Plan

MHA Consulting

Due to the rise in work-from-home, the last few years have seen a serious degradation in organizations’ emergency planning and response capability. In today’s post, we’ll look at why it’s important to have a solid emergency response plan and explain how to create one. Develop and write the emergency response plan.

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Reflections on Providing Operational Support During a Crisis

FEI

As an operations specialist with FEI’s crisis management team, I assist our customers by integrating our crisis support services into their business continuity planning. Preventing a crisis is always best but not always possible. These include: Emergency notifications. Business continuity.

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The 9 Best Books for Disaster Recovery Managers in 2022

Solutions Review

Book Title: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for InfoSec Managers. Gustin’s other works focus on the multi-faceted role of the facility manager and business owner in maintaining business continuity. Additionally, Phelps is the founder of Emergency Management & Safety Solutions Inc.

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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. A great place to get an overview of the whole BC field, from Program Administration to Exercises to Risk Management and Mitigation.

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What Happens When the Crisis Becomes a Marathon?

FEI

As one of many emergency response teams providing support throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we have just passed the six-month marker since we first activated to support our company and our stakeholders. 11 terrorist attacks, an emergency response typically has a very short timeframe, ranging from a few hours to several days.