Google search “business continuity planning steps” and you’ll find a yard sale of results. Is it 5 steps, or 7, or 4? Which are the most involved and which are the most important? How long does the business continuity planning process take? And who should be involved? I would love to be the definitive source …
Business Continuity Program Roles & Responsibilities
Have questions about your business continuity program? You’re not alone. When we talk to businesses about their business continuity program and business continuity plans, we get asked everything from “What is one?”—at the most basic level, many businesses also don’t understand that a business continuity plan, or BCP, is fundamentally different from a disaster recovery …
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What is a Business Impact Analysis (BIA)?
How many days can payroll be down before it impacts your business? What about the servers that power customer networks? Or that internal VPN employees use to work remotely? An hour? A day? A few weeks? If you’re like many companies we talk to, you may not know how long your business could survive without …
Before the Crisis: The Value of a Trusted Business Continuity & Crisis Management Advisor
Sometimes a Bryghtpath client will call my phone late at night or early in the morning. They aren’t check-in calls or social calls. Something has happened at their company, and they’re calling to ask for help. In my nearly 30 years working in business continuity & crisis management, I’ve received calls for: Workplace fatalities Active …
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Business Continuity as a Service: How to Outsource Your Continuity Program
Many companies build and manage their business continuity program in-house — perhaps hiring experts in resiliency to help design and execute a program. But if you lack the in-house expertise — or you need to implement a business continuity program quickly — you have another option: business continuity as a service. What Is Business Continuity as …
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Evaluating Business Continuity Programs: Is your Business Continuity Program ready for the next Disruption?
Is Your Business Continuity Program Ready for the Next Disruption? A series of hurricanes tore through the Caribbean and the U.S. southern states in August and September of 2017. Harvey, Irma, and Maria took hundreds of lives and inflicted $210 billion in damage. On March 11, 2020, the National Basketball Association postponed its season with …
What the COVID-19 pandemic will mean for the office of the future
The COVID-19 pandemic has already shaped the office of the future. As organizations have become less hierarchical and more collaborative, more employees have worked in informal, smaller office spaces. The coronavirus has temporarily disrupted all that close contact, and more people than ever are telecommuting. An April 2020 Gallup Poll found that as American workers …
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How 3 companies have managed the COVID-19 pandemic
The fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented. It’s a global disaster, and no organization has been unaffected, whether they be small, medium, or large. Many companies have teetered over the edge into bankruptcy, some that were already struggling, but also others that were seemingly resilient enough to weather the storm. The Congressional Budget Office …