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Who’s the Boss? Successful Risk Mitigation Requires Centralized Leadership

MHA Consulting

Many companies spend millions of dollars implementing risk mitigation controls but are kept from getting their money’s worth by a disconnected, piecemeal approach. Successful risk mitigation requires that a central authority supervise controls following a coherent strategy. Related on MHA Consulting: Global Turmoil Making You Ill?

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The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk  

MHA Consulting

Reducing risk is at the heart of everything we do as business continuity professionals. Residual risk is the amount of risk that remains in an activity after mitigation controls are applied. Putting it in mathematical terms: (Inherent risk) – (the risk eliminated by your mitigation controls) = residual risk.

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Taking the Next Step from Business Continuity

Fusion Risk Management

For business continuity professionals, the goal is to protect the organization’s continuity of operations. Third-party management, for example, is not just about onboarding vendors, but also assessing them and understanding the vendor risks so that your organization can continue to deliver products and services, no matter what.

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Business, Interrupted: Adopting New Skill Sets to Evolve as Continuity and Resilience Professionals

Castellan

It’s what Turner now calls a triple whammy of skills—continuity, crisis management, and workplace resilience. It’s not uncommon for many business continuity professionals to get their first real-world experiences during natural disasters, such as tornadoes, hurricanes, and other severe weather-related events.

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Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja 

MHA Consulting

A great place to get an overview of the whole BC field, from Program Administration to Exercises to Risk Management and Mitigation. There are many public-spirited professional groups and organizations focused on BC. Other BCM professionals. This is a subsection of Ready.gov devoted specifically to the needs of business.

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The Times They Are a-Changin’: Adapting to Change as a BCM Professional

MHA Consulting

The same thing is true of organizations and business continuity professionals. The pandemic underscored the fact that events taking place 10,000 miles away can impact us with great severity in a very short time. Over time, organisms that are capable of adapting to change thrive while those that don’t go extinct.

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After coronavirus, what next?

Plan B Consulting

The thought which inspired this week’s bulletin came from a military colleague of mine, John Holman, and he wrote a comment on one of my LinkedIn posts: ‘Any thoughts on preparing now for the recovery and transition back to BAU after the event?’. Coronavirus will no doubt lead to similar societal and economic changes.