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All About BIAs: A Guide to MHA Consulting’s Best BIA Resources

MHA Consulting

We write a lot about BIAs in our blog and ebooks, and no wonder: the business impact analysis is the cornerstone of a sound business continuity program. Which would cause the greatest impact if it was down for six hours: Manufacturing? What Goes Into A Business Impact Analysis (BIA) Report? Customer Service?

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Lessons from a Botched BIA: Learning from One Company’s Mistakes

MHA Consulting

In one recent engagement, MHA was tasked with picking up the pieces after a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) conducted by another consulting firm suffered a crack-up. The company—a global manufacturing concern—said they had a BIA in hand and they wanted MHA to use it as the basis for implementing their BC program across the organization.

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Lessons learned from conducting BIA’s in manufacturing

Plan B Consulting

I have been talking about doing a Business Impact Analysis (BIA), on the building manufacturing plants in the Philippines, where I am presently working. I have found that with manufacturing, to make the BIA meaningful, it required a substantial adjustment of my methodology.

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Lessons learned from conducting BIA’s in manufacturing

Plan B Consulting

I have been talking about doing a Business Impact Analysis (BIA), on the building manufacturing plants in the Philippines, where I am presently working. I have found that with manufacturing, to make the BIA meaningful, it required a substantial adjustment of my methodology.

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An Introduction to FFIEC: BCM’s Gold Standard

MHA Consulting

It has greater governance, risk assessment, business impact analysis, planning, testing, and maintenance requirements than any other standard. FFIEC’s requirements are very stringent due to the critical role financial institutions play in the economy.

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BCM Basics: the Difference Between Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

Business continuity is associated with the recovery of the business processes and all of the requirements needed to keep those processes operational in a timeframe consistent with minimizing the impacts to stakeholders. The standard way of arriving at these targets is by conducting a BIA, or business impact analysis.)

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Introduction to Business Continuity Planning

Stratogrid Advisory

non-profit organizations, professional services companies, manufacturing facilities, etc.), Traditionally, organizations start with the development of BCM Program policy and execution of a risk assessment and a business impact analysis (BIA). business impact analysis). Business Impact Analysis.