Business Continuity and Crisis Management Consultants
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 …
What (Almost) Everyone Gets Wrong About the Business Continuity LifecycleRead More
Are you an executive leader wondering how you can more effectively champion your business continuity and crisis management program as an executive sponsor? While many companies recognize that active executive sponsorship is a top driver of project or program success, they often do little to equip executive sponsors on how to do it well. We …
How to Champion Your Business Continuity Program as an Executive SponsorRead More
If you think that having good governance for your business continuity and crisis management program is just an exercise in bureaucratic box-checking, you’re missing the point. Like most people who come to us with a problem, you might have issues: Getting your executives to care about your business continuity and crisis management program Getting other …
Why good Business Continuity Governance is critical to ResilienceRead More
Business continuity and crisis management experts rarely talk about the gap between business continuity and IT disaster recovery planning. But they should. The distance between the IT disaster recovery program you have and what you need could be bigger than you think. Like one of our clients whose IT disaster recovery plans for several critical …
Closing the Gap Between Business Continuity & IT Disaster RecoveryRead More
Does your organization take business continuity and crisis management seriously? Are you getting the resources you need to run these programs well? If not, my best advice to you starts with a question: “What are you doing to build a culture of resilience within your organization?” Fostering a culture of resilience is arguably one of …
In most organizations, the only times a business leader and their team learn about business continuity & crisis management is when the time comes to update their business impact analysis and associated plans – or when an incident or crisis occurs. It’s not a great way to drive business continuity awareness. This is a huge …
How to create an effective business continuity awareness campaign in your organizationRead More
According to research, about 25% of businesses fail to recover after disasters. If they lack a recovery plan, it becomes hard to cope with the repercussions. That’s why your business needs an ideal business continuity plan (BCP). In this article, we discuss how to test your BCP plan using several different business continuity exercise scenarios. …
7 Business Continuity Exercise Scenarios That You Need to Prepare ForRead More
Selling your business continuity program to your internal stakeholders is a lot like telling your kid to eat her veggies while yours are neatly swept onto the rim of your plate or otherwise smothered in ranch and cheese. You know they’re good for you, but how do you convince your kid that all those vitamins, …
What’s the Value of Business Continuity: Beyond ROIRead More
You are ready to begin writing an effective business continuity plan (BCP) for your organization and its critical functions. You have followed our advice on how to communicate your business continuity program to senior executives. You know that business continuity planning is a process that begins with a thorough business impact analysis (BIA). You’ll also …
Tips for creating an effective business continuity planRead More
“Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great.” -Jim Collins In his book, aptly named “Good to Great,” Collins uses this principle to explain why so many, from schools, government, and businesses, to individual people—squander their potential and stay stuck in …
You are a true believer and an expert in business continuity planning. Within your authority and job description limits, you have brought your organization up to a minimal level of business continuity compliance. Your IT is backed up off-site, and your disaster recovery plan looks good on paper, but how do you talk to your …
How to talk with your CEO about business continuityRead More
When creating an effective business continuity plan (BCP), most business leaders focus more on complacency than awareness. Most of these organizational leaders assume that no disruptive phenomena would ever happen to their company. Take the current COVID-19 pandemic, for example. Most companies were caught off guard and didn’t have a robust business continuity plan to …
Today’s businesses are more globally connected than ever, but we aren’t gathering around a traditional water cooler. Our dynamic teams are sharing innovations from home offices, coworking spaces, coffee shops, and hybrid offices around the world. The evolution of remote workspaces has empowered companies in growth and talent acquisition goals. But what happens when the …
Creating Seamless Crisis Communication for Remote WorkspacesRead More
A food processing chain. A fuel pipeline system. A police department. A transportation authority. These are some of the larger targets hit with ransomware attacks in the U.S. so far in 2021. But for every ransomware story in the news, dozens of incidents go unmentioned, either because the company is too small for news outlets …
If you’re considering a career in business continuity, you might be wondering about business continuity certifications. Do you need one to be competitive for business continuity jobs? Which business continuity certification should you get? What does it take to get and maintain a business continuity certification? Here, we discuss Bryghtpath’s take on the top industry …
Choosing the Right Business Continuity CertificationRead More
“Companies routinely exaggerate the attractiveness of foreign markets, and that can lead to expensive mistakes.” -Pankaj Ghemawat, Global Professor of Management and Strategy at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Ghemawat’s statement sounds like a round-up of recent supply chain resilience woes at the hands of the COVID pandemic crisis. Yet it comes from …
Supply Chain Resilience: You may not be as resilient as you thinkRead More
Are you and your team working harder than ever but still not making forward progress on your business continuity objectives? You’ve read all the books and listened to all the podcasts but you’re still at a loss for where to even begin. Or perhaps fear and doubt are simply keeping you from taking action. Whether …
5 Ways Coaching Can Help Your Business Continuity and Crisis Management ProgramRead More
The last half of 2021 has witnessed a resurgence in economic activities in the US due to several monetary and fiscal stimulus and increased consumer spending. However, the supply chain challenges, rising price pressure, and lingering virus concerns have increased inflation. Several pundits predict that 2022 may present several disruptions which may interfere with your …
As a business owner, you need the assurance that your business will continue to operate smoothly despite the unexpected. This is where business continuity planning comes in. A well-developed business continuity plan can help you minimize the effects of a disruption to your business operations and improve your organization’s resilience. However, for your continuity plan …
Is it just me, or is “resilience” the new buzzword? The concept seems straightforward in a personal context; building up the psychological fortitude to bounce back from all of life’s bumps and bruises. But what exactly does it mean for a business to be “resilient”? We hear a lot of business leaders and highly trained …
No matter how much business experience you have or how long you’ve studied risk and resilience in your businesses, creating a business continuity program can seem daunting. But internationally recognized guidelines exist to help you build the right program for your organization’s unique situation. This article provides you with all the essentials you need to …
Business Continuity Standards: How each can help youRead More
Let’s talk about the law of aggregate marginal gains. As the theory goes, many tiny improvements add up to huge wins over time. In the case of the British Cycling Team, the accumulation of tiny improvements like improved handwashing, new massage gels and pillows, and tweaks to bike ergonomics were credited for the team’s wildly …
Plan-Do-Check-Act and your Business Continuity ProgramRead More
In my 25+ years as a business continuity & crisis management expert, I often get asked one particular question that that makes me cringe: “Are there metrics we should be tracking?” In short and emphatically, YES! What metrics should you be tracking? It depends: Do you really want to know whether your business continuity program …
3 Key Metrics for Business Continuity Program SuccessRead More
Covid 19. Wildfires. Heatwaves. Floods. It’s no wonder that by 2025, 70% of CEOs are predicted to place organizational resilience as a top priority for their organization’s strategic objectives. With resiliency thrust into the limelight, many business continuity professionals may see their next step to sit back and wait for the budget money to rain …
Making the Case for your Business Continuity ProgramRead More
