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Should You Hire More Business Continuity Staff?

Castellan

Work with a consultant? Also known as consultants, your organization may choose to engage third-party professional services when you have a specific business challenge and your organization doesn’t have the time or expertise to solve the problem (or your need is time-sensitive). Outsourcing or Managed Services. Hire more staff?

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Not another BCM Program audit?

Stratogrid Advisory

These types of assessments can be used to evaluate an entire organization (management consulting), or any specific system (IT audit), process or project. As an example, many smaller organizations use Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to outsource their IT operations and IT Disaster Recovery requirements.

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Not another BCM Program audit?

Stratogrid Advisory

These types of assessments can be used to evaluate an entire organization (management consulting), or any specific system (IT audit), process or project. As an example, many smaller organizations use Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to outsource their IT operations and IT Disaster Recovery requirements. Business Impact Analysis.

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Top reasons why Business Continuity Planning is ignored!

Stratogrid Advisory

We outsourced everything, so we don’t need a Business Continuity Plan. Your organization made a strategic decision to outsource most of the services which are not your business differentiator. Is it aligned with your business continuity requirements ( Business Impact Analysis - BIA anyone)? Business Impact Analysis.

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Business Continuity Planning for Small & Medium-Sized Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

A false sense of security Many of the small and medium-sized organizations are outsourcing some or all of the internal Information Technology infrastructure and applications to third-party organizations (e.g. In the end, they end up owning produced BCM deliverables once the BCM consultant or a firm leaves the business premises.

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Business Continuity Planning for Small & Medium-Sized Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

Many of the small and medium-sized organizations are outsourcing some or all of the internal Information Technology infrastructure and applications to third-party organizations (e.g. In the end, they end up owning produced BCM deliverables once the BCM consultant or a firm leaves the business premises. Business Impact Analysis.

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Introduction to Business Continuity Planning

Stratogrid Advisory

Traditionally, organizations start with the development of BCM Program policy and execution of a risk assessment and a business impact analysis (BIA). This task can be particularly challenging when organizations outsource their IT operations to third-party vendors. business impact analysis). Where do you start?