In this week’s edition of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser, along with Consultant Bray Wheeler, discuss when to bring a consultant into your organization to help solve the challenges in front of you – and how to best make use of that time and engagement together. Related Blogs & …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #63: Prioritizing Top Risks
Once you’ve created your initial crisis management framework, how do you go about prioritizing your top risks for additional situation-based planning? That’s the topic that we dive into today in this week’s edition of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast. Bryghtpath Principal & CEO Bryan Strawser along with Consultant Bray Wheeler talk about how to shift from …
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Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #53: Hong Kong Protests
Over the past several weeks, Hong Kong has been the site of some of the largest protests we’ve seen in history – by some accounts, over two million people took to the streets to protest Hong Kong’s proposed new extradition statutes. Following the protests, the current Chief Executive of Hong Kong temporarily suspended the bills …
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Managing Uncertainty – Episode #45: Small Business Continuity Planning
On this week’s episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & CEO Bryan Strawser takes a look at small business continuity planning Inspired by a question from Meg Cumby, in this episode we discuss the consequences of disruptions for small businesses, disaster recovery challenges, evaluating risks to your business, and small business continuity planning …
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Validating your Business Impact Analysis Results
In an earlier post this year, I talked about the importance of validating the Business Impact Analysis (BIA) results. In today’s post, I want to address the actual validation process. In small to medium-sized organizations, a Business Continuity Manager will have easier access to senior leaders in order to gain alignment on BIA results. If you …
Managing Uncertainty – Episode #35: Alternate Workplace Strategies for Business Continuity
What happens when you find yourself in the middle of a crisis, some of your facilities are impacted, and suddenly you need to relocate several critical teams to an alternate workplace for an indeterminate period of time. If you have planned well, then you’re ready to execute your plan. But if you haven’t…. In this …
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A look at women in Business Continuity
As a woman who has spent nearly her entire career in the field of Business Continuity – and now as a Business Continuity Consultant – I’ve always been interested in how few women have risen to executive positions in business continuity and related fields. A couple of studies around Women in Business Continuity Management (BCM) …
Why failing to validate your business impact analysis results is a huge mistake
You may have missed our Managing Uncertainty Podcast episode from December 26th on To BIA or Not to BIA, where my colleagues discuss the trend of not completing a Business Impact Analysis (BIA). This was a follow-up podcast to a previous episode of Managing Uncertainty that discussed the Traditional BIA. Both podcasts are great and really …
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