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How to Create a Strong Contingency Plan

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Whether you realized it or not at the time, you created a contingency plan. In this guide, we’re digging into exactly what contingency planning is, why it’s crucial for smooth projects, and how you can create a plan that helps you feel confident and prepared — regardless of what banana peels get thrown in your path.

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Importance of Scenario Planning and Analysis in Business

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This is called scenario planning. To better position a business to be prepared to respond to the unknown, learn what scenario planning is and what the different types of scenario planning are. What Is Scenario Planning? Scenario planning is different from forecasting. All have advantages and disadvantages.

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10 Project Meetings to Guide Your Project Management Team

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But meetings are critical for project planning and team collaboration. You can quickly create a status report for an overview, a progress report to see how you’re doing, a variance report to make sure you’re on track and many more. That’s why there are so many project meetings and each has its own focus and importance.

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What Is a Business Budget? Business Budgeting Basics

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This blog also explains the importance of business budgeting and details how to create a business budget. A business budget is a company’s spending plan based on its income and expenses. Another term for the business budget is a financial plan. This data will be used in planning the year ahead.

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Construction Cost Management: Managing Construction Costs

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It begins with the planning and design and goes hand-in-hand with estimating and even on-site specialty contractors, change orders and the finished product. Get all construction costs accounted for when planning with our powerful Gantt chart. Construction costs are one of many metrics that a general contractor has to keep an eye on.

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How to Make an IT Disaster Recovery Plan

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There’s so much that might go wrong that, if you don’t have an IT disaster recovery plan in place, the damage could be irreparable. That means you have to have an IT contingency plan figured out long before anything disastrous happens. We sometimes can stop disasters from happening, but we can certainly plan for recovery.

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How to Make a Contingency Plan

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You’ve heard the phrase, “Always have a Plan B.” ” Well, “Plan B” is just common vernacular for what’s known as a contingency plan. In other words, a contingency plan is put in place in case the primary plan that you’re executing doesn’t unfold as expected.

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