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In preparation for
conducting a business impact analysis (BIA), the process
must include the following considerations:
- Executive sponsorship of the effort.
- Support and involvement of senior management.
- An unprecedented study of the organization.
- A collective undertaking with those whose continuity
is sought are major contributors to the process
and are intimately involved in the assessment of
their value.
- Results of a BIA position each business and support
function in the order for recovery based on organizational
knowledge.
- Interviews of people from all the functional and
support areas who know the business processes and
can respond to a structured questionnaire quantitatively.
- Interviewees range from those who feel the organization
“cannot survive without me” as well
as the ones who “hold the organization together
with their bare hands.”
- BIA conveys the needs of the organization and
what the impacts would be if critical functions
were not recovered in a timely fashion.
- BIA results are the foundation and cornerstone
of the plan and strategies selected to use in the
event of a disaster.
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