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The 7 critical elements of a business continuity plan

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These include protocols for evacuation, communication, emergency contacts, and initial damage assessment. It lists key personnel and their designated roles and responsibilities, decision-making processes, and communication channels to ensure an organized response.

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BCM Basics: The Strategic Side of Crisis Management  

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Related on MHA Consulting: Critical Assistance: How a Consultant Can Strengthen Your Crisis Management Program According to Strong Language: The MHA Glossary of Essential Business Continuity Terminology , crisis management is “the process of trying to resolve a serious adverse event with minimal impact on an organization and its stakeholders.”

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Write or Wrong: Five Common BCM Documentation Mistakes 

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The first issue is that the content of the documentation—that is, the steps the organization must take to recover—is often not communicated to the people who need to implement it. Further Reading The 4-3-3 Rule for Writing Business Recovery Checklists Plan B: As the Recovery Plan Fades, What Will Take Its Place?

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Cyber Incident Management – Looking Through the Wrong End of the Telescope

Plan B Consulting

Business recovery and continuity of operations If we carry out reputation and stakeholder management, we can limit the impact of the cyber incident. As part of the preparation for a cyber incident, organisations should have a communications plan of how they are going to inform all of the groups who could possibly be affected.

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Cyber Incident Management – Looking Through the Wrong End of the Telescope

Plan B Consulting

Business recovery and continuity of operations. As part of the preparation for a cyber incident, organisations should have a communications plan of how they are going to inform all of the groups who could possibly be affected. Errors like this would not have occurred if they had a thought out cyber breach communications plan.

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3 Focus Areas for Improving Business Resilience

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PwC’s analysis is important for organizations who want to improve their critical event management plans so that when the next crisis arises, the right actions can be taken by the right people at the right time to help protect a company’s assets, people, and business operations while reducing business recovery time and costs.

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Recovering Right: How to Improve at IT Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

Many clients call us up and ask us to help them write an IT/DR recovery plan document, skipping the most important phase: developing the plan. The plan includes the solutions, communications, preparations, and actions needed to recover the technical environment in the event of an outage, enabling it to resume supporting business functions.