Objectives

• Understand the principles and scope of the BIA process
• Apply the BIA implementation process
• Understand the available BIA data collection mechanisms
• Determine the appropriate BIA data collection mechanism
• Design a custom tailored BIA questionnaire
• Identify suitable subject matter experts for each business function
• Gather the relevant information through interviews/workshops or questionnaires
• Identify activities that support critical business processes and identify owners
• Determine impacts of a disruption to each activity/process across the organization that may damage organization’s reputation, assets or financial position
• Quantify timescales where interruption becomes unacceptable to organization
• Determine key requirement for tolerable downtime
• Seek sign off of findings by business function owners
• Present findings to senior management and seek approval to adopt the findings as the basis for determining a business continuity strategy
• Provide the resource information to determine or recommend recovery strategies
• Identify internal and external resource requirements to support activities
• Quantify the people, technology and telephony resources required over time to maintain business activities at an acceptable level and within the maximum tolerable period of disruption
• Seek sign off of requirements by process owners
• Present requirements to senior management and seek approval to adopt the findings as the basis for determining a business continuity strategy