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Why Every BC Professional Should Become a Gap Hunter

MHA Consulting

Business continuity professionals who want to make their organizations more resilient should make a conscious effort to become gap hunters. Capacity limitations. We often see that efforts to recover critical apps are derailed by limitations in computing or storage capacity.

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An Old Threat Returns…Computer Outage

Plan B Consulting

If ‘it couldn’t happen’ were true, all of us business continuity professionals would be out of a job, and the Titanic wouldn’t have sunk! There is very little spare capacity in the system to accommodate delayed passengers and cancelled flights, so the effects take days to sort out.

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The Four Phases of Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

For these reasons, it’s important that IT departments (and business continuity professionals) make sure their organizations are capable of restoring their IT services after an outage. Will there be performance impacts or capacity constraints? There are four main phases involved in doing this. Let’s look at them one by one.

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Supply Chain Risk in Action

KingsBridge BCP

After the Suez Canal blockage in March (read more here ), I think Business Continuity professionals everywhere had their eyes opened. In 1986 Congress approved a new lock, recognizing the need for additional capacity for these large freighters. Only one of them is large enough for the large lake freighters.

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BCM Program Governance is a key for it’s success

Stratogrid Advisory

One of the most widely used resources of Business Continuity professionals is the Professional Practices for Business Continuity Management developed by the Disaster Recovery Institute International.

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Should You Hire More Business Continuity Staff?

Castellan

In the business world where executives can sometimes be hyper-focused on dollars-in versus dollars-out—far more than resource allocation for operational resilience—business continuity professionals often find themselves struggling with having to do more with less.

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

The Disaster Recover y Institute International ( DRII ) and the Business Continuit y Institute ( BCI ) are the two major governing bodies that are responsible for defining and developing business continuity practices as well as certifying business continuity professionals. cyber IT firms, cloud-based IT infrastructure).