By Geary W. Sikich
Copyright© Geary W. Sikich 2014. World rights reserved. Published with permission of the author.
If we agree on the basic premise that Business Continuity can be defined as sustaining what is critical to the enterprise’s survivability during periods of discontinuity; then we must recognize that the activity known as the Business Impact Assessment (Analysis) or BIA needs to be redefined. The BIA, as currently practiced does not necessarily achieve the following:
Define what is critical to the organization;
Develop strategies to recover/sustain during times of discontinuity.
I posit a two phase BIA framework consisting...
