I’m not known for giving advice with an extra helping of sugar- just ask my family. So when clients come to us for help because their business continuity program is stuck, my answer is usually one of three things. Your business continuity program is misaligned with your business’s objectives Business continuity is just one of …
Business Continuity Planning in Healthcare
To quote Warren Buffet, “it takes 20 years to build a reputation and only 5 seconds to destroy it.” It’s a truth the people at Common Spirit, one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the U.S., will likely soon be attesting to. They were the target of a recent ransomware incident that brought their …
How to Maximize Your Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
We recently helped a client of ours discover that they could save a boatload of money (imagine a very big boat) by downsizing their on-premise data centers and moving their data to a cloud-based storage service. As an added bonus, this discovery also helped them avoid a significant expense in updating their on-site legacy systems, …
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What is Business Continuity?
As your company’s newly assigned head of global security, you’ve just been informed that running your organization’s business continuity program falls squarely within your role. But what is business continuity? Sure, you’re a battle-tested veteran in managing security for large-scale enterprises. Business continuity? Not so much. The revelation leaves you feeling a lot like that time you …
How to Gain Traction for your Business Continuity Program
Gaining traction for business continuity and crisis management activities with people (who aren’t already on the business continuity bandwagon) has always been challenging. And now we’re stuck in a crisis fatigue hangover of unprecedented proportions. It’s no surprise that nearly every single business continuity professional we talk to right now is struggling to get their …
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How to Build a Crisis & Business Continuity Exercise Strategy
Strategy. It’s what separates the winners from the losers. In sports. In war. And in business. So why do so many organizations fail to implement one for their crisis and business continuity exercises and then wonder why their program continues to flail? Implementing a crisis and business continuity exercise strategy doesn’t have to be complicated. …
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How to Choose the Best Business Continuity Software
You know you need business continuity software. But translating that need into actually getting it done can feel about as overwhelming as starting your tax prep on April 14th. There are a lot of business continuity software solutions on the market. But which ones are the best? What factors should you consider in choosing one …
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What (Almost) Everyone Gets Wrong About the Business Continuity Lifecycle
Business continuity and crisis planning is not a one-and-done event. Still, I see a lot of businesses make this pivotal mistake. They put in a lot of work conducting their initial business impact analysis (BIA), identifying the resilience gaps, creating plans, policies, lists, and procedures, and distributing these throughout the organization. Then they quit. In …
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