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Business impact analysis

Business impact analysis

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Business impact analysis

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- Okay, now let's talk about the most important part of the business continuity planning process, the Business Impact Analysis, the BIA. This is the real work that gets done in your business continuity planning. So, step one in the business continuity planning BIA is identify the company's critical business functions. We talked about that earlier, that's what it's all about. Keeping those critical business functions alive at all costs is the name of the game when it comes to business continuity planning. The BIA, the first step is to identify which of the functions in your organization are the actual critical ones. So, you ask yourself a question like this. You look at your functions, you draw them all out, and you say well, if all of these functions here rely on this other function at the top, then you've found the critical business function. If the five or six other things rely on one, that's a pretty critical function. Now, what you can ask yourself to determine whether a function…

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