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The Human Factor: BCM Team Roles and Skill Requirements 

MHA Consulting

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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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. Back then, finding information on how to do anything in BC and IT disaster recovery (IT/DR) was impossible.

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All About BIAs: A Guide to MHA Consulting’s Best BIA Resources

MHA Consulting

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. Free Ebook Your BIA Action Guide. A Strong Belief in the Value of the BIA The business impact analysis is essential to a sound business continuity program.

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Is your business ready for any disaster? Review this 5-point disaster preparedness checklist

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For instance, businesses in New Jersey may be affected by severe hurricanes and flooding, so these disasters should be high on your list. A good way to visualize threats to business continuity is to create a risk map , which is a graphical representation of all risks and their impacts. Appoint key personnel.

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Achieving 3-2-1 with Veeam

OffsiteDataSync

Veeam Software is known not only for its world-class backup, recovery and data management software. This maxim serves as a guide for IT pros through the tricky policy development phase of effective business continuity. OffsiteDataSync can act as a recovery expert to optimize the process. 3-2-1-0 in a Nutshell.

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How to Offload Your Risk to a Third Party

MHA Consulting

These definitions are taken from our recent free ebook, Strong Language: The MHA Guide to Essential Business Continuity Terminology. Here’s a run-through of some common insurance pitfalls: Many organizations think that if they have business-interruption insurance, they don’t have to worry about business continuity.

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What Was New in ’22: The BCM Year in Review

MHA Consulting

Try a Dose of Risk Management Getting Back in the Air This year, I’m glad to say, I returned to my prepandemic level of business travel. Working remotely as a business continuity management consulting firm worked while it had to, but there’s nothing like visiting organizations in person. as well as throughout the U.S.

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