1. Business Continuity Management Body of Knowledge 3 or BCMBoK 3 provides the minimum expectation for a BCM professional in the area of Business Impact Analysis.

• Implement business impact analysis process.
  • Understand the principles and scope of the BIA process.
  • Apply the BIA implementation process.
  • Understand the available BIA data collection mechanisms.
  • Determine and apply the appropriate BIA data collection mechanism.
  • Design a custom tailored BIA questionnaire.
• Gather BIA Information.
  • Identify activities that support Critical Business Functions (CBF) 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 organization-wide tolerable downtime.
  • Determine Inter-dependencies and intra-dependencies.
  • Identify vital records needed for recovery.
  • Identify and document CBFs, critical processes and critical application.
• Determine continuity resources.
  • 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 Executive Management Approval.
  • Seek sign off of requirements by process owners.
  • Present requirements to executive management and seek approval to adopt the findings as the basis for determining a BC strategy.

Related Terms: Business Impact Analysis.

• Attend BIA Related Business Continuity Courses

• Guidance Notes to Complete the BIA Questionnaires

BCMBoK 3: Business Impact Analysis Definitions

Business Continuity

B

C

I

M

Q

R

V

Disaster Recovery

B

C

I

M

Q

R

V

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