Conducting Your Impact Analysis for Business Continuity Planning (Second Edition)

This series of book aims to prepare your organization to survive any unexpected crisis with expected results in continuing business operations. 

This book helps you to identify the exposure and impact of specific threats to your organization. Instructions and guidelines are given on how to design, prepare and conduct a BIA for your organization. The use of BIA questionnaires will be covered in detail. You will also learn how to review, analyze and consolidate the information as well as seek approval from your Executive Management. This book also prepares teh reader to apply the principles and mehodologies for conducting a business impact analysis (BIA) as part of the BCM planning process.

ISBN: 978-981-05-9654-5

Published Year: 2008

Conducting Your Impact Analysis For Business Continuity Planning

This book will help you to design, prepare, and conduct a BIA for your organization. In this book, the introduction to and completion of the BIA Questionnaire (BIAQ) will be covered. You will also learn how to review, verify, analyze,consolidate and present the information to management for approval. Instructions and guidelines are given on how to design, prepare and conduct a BIA for your organization, included is a pratical easy-to-use BIA Questionnaire template which could be easily tailored to assist personw ithout previous BCM experince to develop and design one. The use of BIA Questionnaire will also be covered in details. You will aslo learn how to review, verify, analyze and consolidate the information as well as to present and seek  approval from your Executive Management.

The content of the book is to accomplish the following:

• Introduce the BIA project to business units and obtain the required approvals.
• Obtain critical BIA information through workshops, interviews and questionnaires.
• Conduct reviews and provide critiques on completed BIAQ and consolidate the responses.
• Analyze and summarize the BIA results.
• Present the consolidated BIAQ report to the Executive Management for approval.

It will help you to identify:

• the critical business function
• the impact of a disruption to these functions
• the minimum resources needed to recoevr these functions
• the inter-and-intra dependencies; and
• the vital records

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