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Business Continuity
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What Is Business Continuity? A Plain-English Guide for New Program Owners
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…
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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…
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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…
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How to Choose the Best Business Continuity Software
Business continuity software will not fix a business continuity program. The right platform, well implemented, will scale a good one. That is…
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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…
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How to Champion Your Business Continuity Program as an Executive Sponsor
Are you an executive leader wondering how you can more effectively champion your business continuity and crisis management program as an executive…
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Why Good Business Continuity Governance Is Critical to Resilience
If you think that having good governance for your business continuity and crisis management program is just an exercise in bureaucratic box-checking,…
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Closing the Gap Between Business Continuity & IT Disaster Recovery
Business continuity and crisis management experts rarely talk about the gap between business continuity and IT disaster recovery planning. But they should.…
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How to create an effective business continuity awareness campaign in your organization
In most organizations, the only times a business leader and their team learn about business continuity & crisis management is when the…
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7 Business Continuity Exercise Scenarios You Need to Prepare For
A business continuity plan only helps if it works, and the only way to know is to test it. The right business…
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What’s the Value of Business Continuity: Beyond ROI
Selling your business continuity program to your internal stakeholders is a lot like telling your kid to eat her veggies while yours…
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Starting a Business Continuity Program: The 11 Elements and Where to Begin
Starting a business continuity program is not the same as writing a business continuity plan. A plan is a document. A business…
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Plan Your Ransomware Attack Response Now
A food processing chain. A fuel pipeline system. A police department. A transportation authority. These are some of the larger targets hit…
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Choosing the Right Business Continuity Certification: CBCP, CBCI, MBCI, and More
If you work in business continuity, or want to, you will eventually ask which business continuity certification to get. My short answer:…
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Supply Chain Resilience: You May Not Be as Resilient as You Think
“Companies routinely overestimate the attractiveness of foreign markets.” That warning sounds like a round-up of recent supply chain resilience woes at the…
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5 Ways Coaching Can Help Your Business Continuity and Crisis Management Program
Are you and your team working harder than ever but still not making forward progress on your business continuity objectives? You’ve read…
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Business Continuity Awareness: Why It’s Important and How to Build It
Business continuity awareness is whether the people who have to act in a disruption know your program exists, know their part in…
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Business Continuity, Crisis Management, Cybersecurity, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Planning & Exercises, Information Security, Intelligence & Global SecurityWhat Is Resilience?
Is it just me, or is “resilience” the new buzzword? The concept seems straightforward in a personal context; building up the psychological…
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Plan-Do-Check-Act and your Business Continuity Program
Let’s talk about the law of aggregate marginal gains. As the theory goes, many tiny improvements add up to huge wins over…
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Business Continuity Metrics: How to Measure Whether Your Program Actually Works
In more than 30 years in business continuity and crisis management, one question still makes me cringe: “Are there metrics we should…
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Making the Case for Your Business Continuity Program
COVID-19. Wildfires. Heatwaves. Floods. In 2021, Gartner predicted that by 2025, 70% of CEOs would mandate a culture of organizational resilience. Resilience…
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4 Steps to Business Continuity Planning Success
Google search “business continuity planning steps” and you’ll find a yard sale of results. Is it 5 steps, or 7, or 4?…
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Business Continuity Program Roles and Responsibilities: Who Owns What
Most business continuity programs that stall don’t have a planning problem. They have an ownership problem. Nobody is sure who sponsors the…
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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…
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