Sample of Executive Business Impact Analysis (BIA) Finding Report for Contingency Plan

Executive Overview

Objectives

The purpose of the Business Impact Analysis (BIA) Template was to facilitate our organization make out which business units, operations and processes are essential to the endurance of the business. The BIA has identified the time frames in which indispensable business operations have to be reinstated to full functionality following a disruptive event.   It has identified the business impact of not performing critical business operations based on a worst-case scenario.  The BIA has also identified the resources necessary to resume business operations to a functioning level.

A worst-case scenario assumes that the physical infrastructure supporting each respective business unit has been destroyed and all records, equipment, etc are not accessible within 30 days. 

The objectives for this BIA were:

1. Estimate the financial, customer/operation, and legal/regulatory impacts for each major business unit, assuming a worst-case scenario
2. Determine the estimated number of personnel required for recovery operations
3. Identify the critical business functions, business unit processes and the estimated Recovery Time Objective (RTO) for each business unit.
4. Provide a foundation for implementing Business Resumption, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans.

The RTO is the maximum allowable time a process can be inoperative following an outage / disruptive event. 

These timeframes may have to be re-evaluated to meet the requirements of the Technology capabilities.  If the capabilities of technology do not meet the requirements of the business unit, a gap exists.  These gaps must be mitigated to prevent extended outages and impact to your organization.

Table of Contents: Executive BIA Finding Report

• EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW
  • Objectives
  • Scope
  • Approach
  • Department Responses and Findings
• BUSINESS UNIT RESULTS
• SUMMARY OF FINDINGS 
  • Combined Financial Impact      
  • Combined Customer/Operational Impact         
  • Combined Legal and/or Regulatory Impact       
  • Recovery Personnel Requirements       
  • Recovery Time Objectives for Business Processes       
  • Manual Work-Around Processes         
  • Work Backlog Processing       
  • Recovery Complexity for Business Units          
• CONCLUSION
• APPENDIX
  • APPENDIX A – BIA QUESTIONNAIRE
  • APPENDIX B – INDIVIDUAL FULL DEPARTMENT RESPONSES
  • APPENDIX C – BLANK DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW FORM
  • APPENDIX D – CUMULATIVE REPORT CHART TEMPLATES

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