Do you know the book “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff”? Today’s post is about sweating the big stuff.

It lays out the five things that matter most for the success of your organization’s business continuity management (BCM) program.

DETAILS, DETAILS

Most business continuity managers are extremely detail-oriented. They have to be to do their job. If BCM teams don’t sweat the details of what they do, then their work is probably not very good and whatever plans they have made can probably not be relied upon.

However, everyone has the defects of their good points. Sometimes, people who are very detail-oriented can become focused on the wrong or less impactful items.

Imagine that you have been in a fender bender caused by another driver. The detail-oriented person gets out and carefully takes pictures of all of the scrapes on their car caused by the collision. The overly detail-oriented person does the same thing while not realizing that the front half of their car is hanging off a cliff.

By this definition, there are a lot of overly detail-oriented people on BCM teams!

We at MHA have found over the years that many BCM programs are obsessing over minor dents and scrapes at the same time as their programs are hanging off a cliff, so to speak.

With all that in mind, we thought it would be worthwhile to remind you about what really matters when it comes to business continuity management.

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https://www.mha-it.com/2018/09/business-continuity-management-program/