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The April 2024 Issue
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Contributions for the April Issue of The Best Practice Magazine

Submit your article about (IMP) Improving Performance - (PCM) Process Management, (PAD) Process Asset Development & (MPM) Managing Performance and Measurement for next month's issue of The Demix Best Practice Magazine.

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(MBR) Managing Business Resilience - (RSK) Risk and Opportunity Management, (IRP) Incident Resolution & Prevention, (CONT) Continuity

(MBR) Managing Business Resilience
This CA addresses the ability to anticipate, prepare for, and respond to interruptions in order to continue operations. It involves identifying, evaluating, prioritizing, and handling risks. It ensures timely and effective resolution and prevention of interruptions to minimize the impact on business operations and ensures the best possible level of service quality. It addresses defining a minimum set of critical functions that must continue in the event of significant interruption of normal operations.

(RSK) Risk and Opportunity Management
Intent
Identify, record, analyze, and manage potential risks or opportunities.

Value
Mitigate adverse impacts or capitalize on positive impacts to increase the likelihood of meeting objectives.

(IRP) Incident Resolution & Prevention
Intent
Resolve and prevent disruptions promptly to sustain service delivery levels.

Value
Minimize the impact of disruptions to meet objectives and customer commitments more effectively.

(CONT) Continuity
Intent
Plan mitigation activities for significant disruptions to business operations so that work can continue or resume.

Value
Enables continued operation when serious disruptions or catastrophic events occur.


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Agile - (MBR) Managing Business Resilience - (RSK) Risk and Opportunity Management, (IRP) Incident Resolution & Prevention, (CONT) Continuity

Article: Risk Management in Agile Projects by Alan Moran, Ph.D., CRISC, CITP

https://www.isaca.org/

The inherent cadence and iterative nature of Agile practices make them well suited for the management of a wide range of risk commonly encountered in product development and related projects.1 Indeed, the nature and pace of change in such undertakings present considerable challenges for traditional methods that presume well-defined and stable requirements, together with known risk, that can be captured and modelled using classic techniques. For example, the manner in which understanding of requirements evolves (e.g., facilitated workshops, Agile modelling), the explorative fashion in which designs are implemented (e.g., prototyping, architectural spikes) and the incremental delivery of solutions all help to tackle uncertainty and to promote desired outcomes. This is particularly true of highly innovative solutions where both the customer and the delivery team must collaboratively work together to iteratively define the scope and content of the final solution while tackling both upside and downside risk.

However, throughout Agile literature, there is also a pronounced tendency to focus exclusively on the downside of risk without considering opportunities that can be exploited. This is evident from the view, expressed in many methodologies, that risk should necessarily be considered as an exposure to potentially negative outcomes. Moreover, there is a prevailing view that merely being Agile suffices and that more explicit attention to the identification, assessment, treatment and monitoring of risk is, therefore, not warranted.


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Management - (MBR) Managing Business Resilience - (RSK) Risk and Opportunity Management, (IRP) Incident Resolution & Prevention, (CONT) Continuity

Article: 6 resources to grow your cybersecurity IQ
By Colette Sharbaugh, Senior Manager, Communications and Public Relations; Mballa Mendouga, Communications — Manager, Corporation Social Responsibility & Campaigns; and Jesse Bullington, Communications — Copywriter, Brand & Creative Solutions

https://www.cimaglobal.com/

It’s been an interesting month for Home Group, one of the UK’s major housing associations. Home Group is responsible for renting homes to more than 116,000 people across 55,000 properties in England and Scotland. Just last month, the charity suffered a data breach involving customer names, addresses and contact information. The company informed affected customers and mitigated the breach in just 90 minutes — a feat only a vigorous cybersecurity program made possible.
 
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Organizational change - (MBR) Managing Business Resilience - (RSK) Risk and Opportunity Management, (IRP) Incident Resolution & Prevention, (CONT) Continuity

Article: Leadership Development Plan by Valamis.

https://www.valamis.com/

After reading this guide, you will understand how to improve leadership skills training in your organization, and get actionable tips for building a leadership development plan.

Discover:


What is leadership development?

Leadership development is the process of improving leadership skills and competencies through various activities.

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 © 2024 Valamis Group

Process - (MBR) Managing Business Resilience - (RSK) Risk and Opportunity Management, (IRP) Incident Resolution & Prevention, (CONT) Continuity

Article: INTEGRATED BCM (BUSINESS CONTINUITY MANAGEMENT) AND RISK MANAGEMENT EXPLAINED  Presented by Steve Simmonds, Director, SynergyGRC and Jonathan Crisp, Director, BarnOwl 

https://www.barnowl.co.za/

Thank you very much Steve for presenting at our info-sharing event on the 30th July 2020. Thank you also to all those who attended.

Introduction

Whilst, BCM is a sub-set of the greater enterprise risk management discipline, the link between BCM and Risk Management is often not very well understood. This presentation focusses on BCM and how risk management integrates with BCM, provides objective value, and the ability to recover from setbacks, adapt well to change and keep going in the face of adversity.

In a nutshell, risk management together with BCM enables an organisation to optimise the level of risk being taken to best achieve the organisation’s objectives whilst still operating within the risk appetite of the organisation. Risk management is about preserving and enhancing value creation whilst minimizing the risks that lead to value erosion.


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© 2024 IDI Technology (Pty) Ltd 

Technology - (MBR) Managing Business Resilience - (RSK) Risk and Opportunity Management, (IRP) Incident Resolution & Prevention, (CONT) Continuity
Article: Social Learning Theory by Valamis.

https://www.valamis.com/

In this article, you will learn about Social Learning theory and the advantages and disadvantages of applying this learning technique in your organisation. You will also read examples of ways you can integrate social learning into the workplace to encourage and improve success in your learning environment.

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© 2024 Valamis Group

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