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Weathering the Storm: Tips for Coping with a Disrupted Climate

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Today’s post looks at how companies can ensure they will be resilient in the face of any type of extreme weather event, including fires, floods, and everything in between. And formerly tranquil areas are increasingly vulnerable to extreme weather events. Recently, the old patterns have been upended.

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Write or Wrong: Five Common BCM Documentation Mistakes 

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We’ll also share some ideas on how you can ensure that your documentation is not simply window dressing but is a real aid that can improve your company’s ability to recover in the event of a disruption. 1: Trying to document a recovery plan that does not exist. Common Mistake No.

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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

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Far from relieving organizations of the responsibility of recovering their IT systems, today’s cloud-based and hybrid environments make it more important than ever that companies know how to bring their systems back up in the event of an outage. There is an order of magnitude difference between the two.

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Planning to Fail: 10 Common Mistakes Companies Make with Their BC Plans

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Related on MHA Consulting: Sounds Like a Plan: The Elements of a Modern Recovery Plan Everyone reading this blog will know that the business continuity (BC) recovery plan is something organizations create to help them quickly restore their essential operations in the event of an outage, minimizing the impact on the company.

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Get Cyber Smart: How to Make Sure Recovery Plans Align with Information Security Needs  

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A company that has suffered an outage or disruption for any reason, and which is in the process of recovering its systems and operations, is at a heightened level of vulnerability to every type of event. During an event, use of devices often diverges from the norm. The danger from cyberattacks grows especially acute during this period.

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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.”