BCMMETRICS Blog

The Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is one of the fundamental building blocks of a sound business continuity management program. In today’s post, we’ll look at six mistakes companies commonly make [...]

Many people who are new at conducting a Business Impact Analysis think the hard part is over once they arrive at their list of business processes arranged in order of criticality. It’s more [...]

One of the biggest decisions companies face in conducting a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is what use, if any, they will make of software in doing it. In today’s post we’ll look at the main [...]

Do you know the main reasons that most Business Impact Analyses today are “Dead On Arrival”?   I’ll tell you about bad BIAs in a moment. Before I do, however, I’d like to share two pieces of [...]

In last week’s blog, we talked about the importance of identifying the right BIA impact categories for your business impact analysis. As a reminder, these are the six categories appropriate to [...]

Are you a BCM practitioner in the middle of configuring your BIA questionnaire? Are you scratching your head over the part about identifying the impact categories that are most relevant to your [...]

We’re helping you streamline your BIA, cutting it down from 8 to 4 hours or less for each business unit and maximizing your BIA interview. In last week’s post, I mentioned that we [...]

One of the most interesting engagements MHA Consulting had this year was at a Fortune 500 company where 3 of our consultants conducted approximately 100 BIAs. Over the course of that engagement, [...]

I am a big coffee drinker, so I naturally found it interesting last week when I talked to someone who told me about a persistent problem he had at a coffee shop where he used to work. He said the [...]