Plan B Consulting

MAY 23, 2022

Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) has been running this past week to raise awareness about the new hybrid work environment and how organisations need to rethink the way they embed, validate, and raise awareness amongst their staff of Business Continuity Plans. Last week I ran a SIMEX for a bank crisis management team.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 23, 2022

Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) has been running this past week to raise awareness about the new hybrid work environment and how organisations need to rethink the way they embed, validate, and raise awareness amongst their staff of Business Continuity Plans. Last week I ran a SIMEX for a bank crisis management team.

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Erwood Group

JANUARY 28, 2024

It encompasses a holistic approach, safeguarding an organization’s people, processes, facilities, technology, vendors, and communications. In times of crisis, a comprehensive business continuity plan ensures that every facet of the organization is resilient. Business continuity involves more than just technology.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 19, 2023

By identifying potential risks, developing plans to mitigate those risk and establishing effective crisis management protocols, organisations can minimise disruption, ensure business continuity and enhance their reputation. Org anisational resilience is vital in today’s rapidly changing and uncertain world.

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FEI

JULY 9, 2020

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. Business continuity. COVID-19 is the perfect example.

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National Fire Protection Association

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

One of the plans that can be used is NFPA 1660, Standard for Emergency, Continuity, and Crisis Management: Preparedness, Response and Recovery, which provides guidelines for creating, implementing, assessing, and maintaining effective disaster/emergency management and business continuity programs.

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BCP Builder

MARCH 30, 2020

Plan activation – during this coronavirus pandemic, the majority of companies will be referring to either their business continuity plan or pandemic plan. Is it the Business Continuity team or the affected department? It should define protocols on who is going to activate the plan for different scenarios.

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BCP Builder

MARCH 30, 2020

Plan activation – during this coronavirus pandemic, the majority of companies will be referring to either their business continuity plan or pandemic plan. Is it the Business Continuity team or the affected department? Feeback from BCP Builder Community on LinkedIn : Communication.

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Solutions Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Rittinghouse is a management consultant for large enterprises as well as a member of the Federal Communication Commission’s Homeland Security Network Reliability and Interoperability Council Focus Group on Cybersecurity. Since 9/11 it has become increasingly important for companies to implement a plan for disaster recovery.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 5, 2022

This week, Charlie discusses why scenario-specific plans are an important addition to business continuity plans. Firstly, rewriting the Business Continuity Institutes’, ‘ Good Practice Guidelines ’ (GPG). Secondly, the ISO 22361, which will be titled ‘Crisis Management – Guidelines for a Strategic Capability’.

All-Hazards 52

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 5, 2022

This week, Charlie discusses why scenario-specific plans are an important addition to business continuity plans. Firstly, rewriting the Business Continuity Institutes’, ‘ Good Practice Guidelines ’ (GPG). Secondly, the ISO 22361, which will be titled ‘Crisis Management – Guidelines for a Strategic Capability’.

All-Hazards 52

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 5, 2022

This week, Charlie discusses why scenario-specific plans are an important addition to business continuity plans. Firstly, rewriting the Business Continuity Institutes’, ‘ Good Practice Guidelines ’ (GPG). Secondly, the ISO 22361, which will be titled ‘Crisis Management – Guidelines for a Strategic Capability’.

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MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This means that in the blog when I talk about negative consequences, I’m limited to saying, “Believe me, I’ve seen it over and over again: Companies that neglect business continuity planning frequently live to regret it.” IT Infrastructure Experts. IT Applications.

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Erwood Group

JULY 8, 2020

For those new, to Business Continuity the Importance of Business Continuity provides a brief overview of what business continuity is and why you should have a continuity plan, but more importantly how to get started developing and implementing your own program for business resilience and preparedness.

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Erwood Group

JULY 12, 2022

Everything You Need to Know About Business Continuity Plans. Business Continuity Plans. Chances are if you’re visiting this page, you are new to the concept of Business Continuity Plans (BCPs) and business continuity overall. Definition of Business Continuity Plan.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 16, 2023

The rise of the internet and social media has made crisis communications more challenging—and more critical—than ever. In today’s post, we’ll list and link to some of MHA’s best-ever resources on the art of communicating during a crisis. We’ve written a lot about crisis communications over the years.

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Castellan

JUNE 2, 2021

With the profession front-and-center for many organizations, the pandemic highlighted the value of continuity planning, but it also helped teams quantify value and better communicate program needs to executives and key stakeholders. Situational awareness is also a critical competency as it pertains to crisis management.

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Business Resilience Decoded

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Are procedures in place and are they communicated so that information can move across your organization? Does your curriculum provide training for employees to make them aware of your emergency response plans and continuity plans? Do you have clear lines of authority and succession defined?

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Business Resilience Decoded

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Are procedures in place and are they communicated so that information can move across your organization? Does your curriculum provide training for employees to make them aware of your emergency response plans and continuity plans? Do you have clear lines of authority and succession defined?

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 23, 2023

It is also comprehensive, covering all phases of the BCM program lifecycle, including risk assessment, business impact analysis, crisis management, cyber response, strategy development, plan development, testing, and maintenance. The FFIEC standard can be found here, and it’s completely free. Not even close.

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MHA Consulting

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

4: Not figuring out and documenting the integration between the recovery plan and the organization’s other plans. The recovery plan does not live in a vacuum. It typically exists alongside plans for crisis management, security response, and other areas. Common Mistake No.

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Business Resilience Decoded

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Are procedures in place and are they communicated so that information can move across your organization? Does your curriculum provide training for employees to make them aware of your emergency response plans and continuity plans? Do you have clear lines of authority and succession defined?

Resilience 28

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Erwood Group

APRIL 20, 2022

Still, in a tabletop setting in most cases, the participants are expected to know how to access their business continuity plans, how to access information within the plan, and how to walk through the steps to invoke the plan successfully. How were internal communications? Did they fail? If so, why? What didn’t?

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Erwood Group

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Let’s explore the transformative role of innovations and emerging technologies in shaping the future of business continuity, along with crisis management and disaster recovery to enhance organizational resilience.

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On Solve

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Steve Goldman discusses the importance of testing your business resiliency and related response plans. An exercise of the elements of a Business Resiliency, Crisis Management, Crisis Communications or IT Disaster Recovery (BR/CM/CC/DR) plan is an important aspect of an organization’s emergency preparedness.

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Fusion Risk Management

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A Morgan Stanley representative spoke at the GFMI event expanding on this, to illustrate the end-to-end picture of crisis management. and then check that your documented responses are aligned, be that processes, playbooks, tooling, intelligence, communications, or people.

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BCP Builder

APRIL 20, 2020

All aspects of Business Continuity, including planning, training, stress testing and exercising of Business Continuity Plans will be seen as a priority. Many professionals in senior roles did not understand, nor even care to understand business continuity and organisational resilience strategies.

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BCP Builder

APRIL 20, 2020

All aspects of Business Continuity, including planning, training, stress testing and exercising of Business Continuity Plans will be seen as a priority. Many professionals in senior roles did not understand, nor even care to understand business continuity and organisational resilience strategies.

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Security Industry Association

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member IXP Corporation provides emergency communications consulting, technology and managed services for public safety, governments, campuses and private industry. These assessments and plans provide recommendations that form the foundation of their master plans and long-term vision.

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Castellan

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The structured approach needed for business interruption risks is business continuity management – a process that analyzes an organization’s risk of business interruption and takes actions to reduce it. If it’s not a plan, what’s the outcome? In addition, executive level plans will also need to be developed.

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Risk Management Monitor

MARCH 4, 2022

Have key members of the executive team and incident response team set up a secure but alternate method of communication, such as sharing phone numbers or creating a different off system email address to communicate in the event the business’ systems are not available or not trusted.

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BCP Builder

JUNE 1, 2020

When does the Crisis Management team let go and the Business Continuity team take over? I think these two teams need to work together from the outset, but there is a point where the “lead” is handed over from Crisis Management to Business Continuity. Business Continuity is an enabling discipline.

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BCP Builder

JUNE 1, 2020

When does the Crisis Management team let go and the Business Continuity team take over? I think these two teams need to work together from the outset, but there is a point where the “lead” is handed over from Crisis Management to Business Continuity. Business Continuity is an enabling discipline.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 1, 2019

The organisation’s incident management team can be the same as the crisis management team, as they are going to be dealing with the reputation and strategic impacts of the incident. Guidance on communications and lines to take – this could be debated and exercised so that there is a structure in place already.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 1, 2019

The organisation’s incident management team can be the same as the crisis management team, as they are going to be dealing with the reputation and strategic impacts of the incident. Guidance on communications and lines to take – this could be debated and exercised so that there is a structure in place already.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 5, 2020

Remote Work and Business Continuity Planning Challenges. The work in the office going forward will be different, and in some aspects, it will introduce a new set of challenges for Business Continuity Planning efforts. Business Continuity Planning Challenges with a Distributed Workforce.

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Plan B Consulting

JUNE 7, 2017

You might also have business continuity plans in place, but there is often a gap between where the emergency response plans end and the recovery can start. In the diagram above, you can see some of the issues which need to be managed after the emergency response phase is over.

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