Business Continuity Management

With the clock running out on 2019, there’s no better time than now to take a look back at our most popular posts of the year. In this last post before the year ends, I want to turn the spotlight [...]

Few organizations think about risk in a rational manner, which commonly leads to unnecessary expenditures and dangerous gaps in their business continuity planning. In today’s post, we’re going to [...]

Good documentation is one of the pillars of a strong business continuity program, but it’s one that often gets left out. In today’s post, we’ll look at how to create BC documentation, which parts [...]

When clients issue RFPs for business continuity services that are vague and contradictory, the result is a disappointment for the client and bewilderment for prospective BC service providers. In [...]

In over twenty years in the business, I’ve seen it all in terms of how our clients treat us at MHA as consultants, partners, and people. Most clients are great, but a few have made our lives [...]

The best business continuity data in the world is useless if no one can make any sense out of it when planning for an emergency – or actually responding to one. If you want to provide [...]

The reports of the death of the field of business continuity have been greatly overstated. But those of us who work in it do have to raise our performance in a few critical areas. For some time, [...]

The human factor in business continuity is one of the most important and also one of the most overlooked keys to success in creating an effective business continuity management (BCM) program. In [...]

Unfortunately, external audits of business continuity management (BCM) programs have a bad habit of going off the rails. In today’s post, I’ll lay out the kinds of things that commonly go wrong [...]

The fascinating new discipline known as Chaos Engineering (CE) has the potential to bring big changes to business continuity. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post called, What Is Chaos [...]