Business Continuity Management (BCM) Lifecycle Overview
In this second episode of the Whiteboard Wednesday video series, Rob Burton discusses the BCM Lifecycle.
Throughout 2016, we have created and delivered multiple crisis simulation exercises. Each scenario was custom created to each organization based on their exercise objectives. Scenarios must be customized to ensure the team being tested is engaged. Without engagement, the exercise will not be as successful as it could be. Scenarios should also include each exercise…
Quickly Assembling and Organizing your Crisis Team is Critical to the Success of Your Response. A Crisis Coordinator is Essential! What is a Crisis Coordinator? Each member of a crisis team has a functional role – e.g. Corporate Security, Human Resources, Corporate Communications, etc. The Crisis Coordinator plays an organizing and facilitating role for…
A Crisis Leader Needs to Think Strategically and Make Key Decisions for the Overall Management and Response Being able to coordinate multiple functional areas of an organization during a crisis requires detailed preparation. The CMT (Crisis Management Team) should have a leader as well as someone designated as his or her backup. In addition to…
It’s a busy end of the year for PreparedEx! Rob Burton talks recent exercises, FirstLook, our self-guided exercise package, and Whiteboard Wednesday.
Article written by Dani Andrews Regardless of how long you’ve been running your business, it’s normal to experience crises over the years. While you cannot completely eliminate the risks and threats to your business’s growth and success, the first step to risk management is recognizing the common examples of business crises, some of which you…
During the course of the exercise, there will be times when an issue surfaces that cannot be resolved because of exercise time constraints. We define an “issue” as something whose resolution is important to the organization’s crisis or business continuity plan, but that cannot be resolved during the time available for the exercise. These issues…
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