Business Continuity and Crisis Management Consultants
A culture of resilience is not a poster in the break room or a line in the values statement. It is what your people do in the first hour after something breaks, before anyone has told them what to do. Your executives build that culture, or erode it, every time they react to bad news. …
Building a Culture of Resilience: Leadership Tips for Business ContinuityRead More
How many days of payroll can you lose? What about the system your customers order through, or the VPN your remote staff depend on? An hour? A day? Two weeks? A business impact analysis (BIA) answers those questions, and most organizations that skip one find out the answer during the outage. The BIA is the …
How to Conduct a Business Impact Analysis: Four Steps That Set Your Recovery OrderRead More
If you want to hit a home run within your organization with your business continuity program, then you need to prepare by conducting a proper business impact analysis and learning how to avoid costly BIA mistakes. When done right, the business impact analysis (BIA) process is straightforward, concise, and adds value to your organization on …
A few years ago, we helped a client 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 …
How to Maximize Your Business Impact Analysis (BIA)Read More
Starting a business continuity program is not the same as writing a business continuity plan. A plan is a document. A business continuity program is the set of capabilities that keeps your critical work running when something breaks, and the discipline that makes those capabilities better every year. Most organizations that call us to start …
Starting a Business Continuity Program: The 11 Elements and Where to BeginRead More
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser discusses Business Continuity standards and how they can help you improve your business continuity and resiliency program. Topics discussed include the ISO 22301 Standard for Organizational Resilience, NFPA 1600, and the ASIS Business Continuity & Crisis Management Standard. Related Episode …
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser discusses the Business Impact Analysis (BIA), how we approach the BIA process at Bryghtpath, and the value it can provide to your organization. Topics discussed include the Business Impact Analysis (BIA), the ISO 22301 Standard for Organizational Resilience, our approach …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #112 – The Business Impact Analysis (BIA)Read More
In this episode, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser walks through the Bryghtpath Business Continuity Framework – it’s our view of the lifecycle & workflows that should be established in any Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery framework. Topics discussed in this episode include the business impact analysis, business continuity & disaster recovery planning lifecycles, …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #102: The Bryghtpath Business Continuity FrameworkRead More
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 …
Managing Uncertainty – Episode #35: Alternate Workplace Strategies for Business ContinuityRead More
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 …
Why Failing to Validate Your Business Impact Analysis Results Is a Huge MistakeRead More
In last week’s episode, we discussed the traditional approach to the Business Impact Analysis (BIA), a part of the Business Continuity Lifecycle. This week, we’re going to talk about the trend towards not doing the BIA at all. In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & CEO Bryan Strawser and Senior Consultant Jennifer Otremba talk through the …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast: Episode #25 – To BIA or not to BIARead More
We’re often asked about the Business Impact Analysis (BIA) process, a part of the Business Continuity lifecycle, and how that should be structured within an organization. Over the next two episodes, we’ll take a look at the BIA, starting with the traditional business impact analysis process, followed by a look next week at the trend …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast: Episode #24 – The Traditional Business Impact Analysis (BIA)Read More
