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Minimum Business Continuity Objective (MBCO)

1. Minimum Business Continuity Objective (MBCO) is the minimum level of services and/or products that is acceptable to the organization to achieve its business objectives during an incident, emergency or disaster.

Related Terms: Recovery Objectives.


MBCO is set by the Executive Management of the organization and can be influenced, dictated and/or changed by current regulatory requirements or industry practices. The MBCO is the management specification of what this level should be from a policy/'top down' perspective The definition provided here rephrases the operational perspective into an objective - the mission objective for BCM.


BCMBoK Competency Level
BCMBoK 3: Business Impact Analysis CL 1: Foundation




BCMBoK Competency Level
BCMBoK 3: Business Impact Analysis CL 4: Intermediate (DR)

(Source: Business Continuity Management Institute - BCM Institute)


2. The minimum level of services and/or products that is acceptable to the organization to achieve its business objectives during an incident, emergency or disaster. MBCO is set by the executive management of the organization and can be influenced, dictated and/or changed by current regulatory requirements or industry practices.

(Source: Singapore Standard 540 - SS 540:2008)