Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
Defines what must be recovered first, how quickly, and what resources are required.
Scope
Identifies critical business processes, supporting systems, dependencies, maximum tolerable downtime, impact tolerances, RTO, RPO, people, vendors, and locations.
The gaps it finds
Unclear business priorities, missing dependency mapping, unrealistic recovery targets, services without defined recovery requirements, and unvalidated criticality.
Value to the board
Aligns recovery priorities with business value, customer impact, regulatory impact, and financial exposure.
Framework alignment
- ISO 22301
- ISO 27031
- Operational resilience guidance
Reporting
Like every assessment in the portfolio, this engagement ends with the full deliverable set, from executive summary and maturity scorecard to remediation roadmap and board dashboard. The methodology page describes each deliverable.
Scope this assessment
A scoping conversation confirms objectives, stakeholders, systems, and the document request list before any work begins.