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12 Steps to Preparing for a Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
In an ever-evolving business landscape, disruptions and unexpected events are inevitable, so it is crucial to prepare for a business impact analysis. From natural disasters to cybersecurity breaches, organizations face many challenges that can significantly impact their operations, finances, and reputation. To effectively navigate these challenges and ensure business continuity, a crucial tool in the …
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How to Conduct a Business Impact Analysis
Imagine a significant disruption, such as a cyberattack, a natural disaster, or a pandemic, hit your business. How would you cope with losing data, customers, revenue, or reputation? How would you recover your operations and resume your normal activities? How would you prevent or minimize the impact of such events in the future? These are …
3 Business Impact Analysis (BIA) Mistakes to Avoid
“You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation”- Roger Maris 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 …
How to Maximize Your Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
We recently helped a client of ours 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 systems, …
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Tips for creating an effective business continuity plan
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 …
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Starting a Business Continuity Program
“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 …
How to talk with your CEO about business continuity
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 …
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