BCM-630: Managing and Analyzing Business Impact

1 Day

Course Description

A common and difficult challenge facing the Business Continuity Management (BCM) steering committee and the project team is the thorough understanding of the organisation’s needs during a disaster. This course is designed and developed to empower the participants with practical and effective skills, and a proven approach to achieving desired outcomes in these stages.

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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