Business Continuity and Resilience Blog

Our continuity and resilience consultants share their insight.

Timeframe and Business Impact Analysis in Practice

Posted by John Robinson on Dec 21, 2015

Completing a timeframe analysis or business impact analysis can seem daunting for any size or sector of organisation. A technology resilience and business continuity review which we conducted for a teaching hospital, including a business impact analysis and timeframe analysis, demonstrated some common issues that complex organisations face when putting theory into practice and performing analysis into business impact.

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Tags: Business Continuity Management, Business Impact Analysis

Free tools for planning your disaster recovery strategy

Posted by John Robinson on Dec 02, 2015


INONI has teamed up with disaster recovery (DR) specialist Databarracks, to help them design and offer a suite of free DR planning tools.

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Tags: Small Business

How to Perform a Timeframe Analysis

Posted by John Robinson on Nov 23, 2015

In our recent review of the ISO 22317 Business Impact Analysis guidelines, I suggested that to perform an effective BIA, business continuity managers would need to give senior management context for creating timeframes and priorities. With that in mind, I thought it might be useful to share a basic, step-by-step guide to performing a timeframe analysis.

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Tags: Business Continuity Management, Risk, Business Impact Analysis

Business Impact Analysis vs Risk Assessment

Posted by John Robinson on Nov 17, 2015

For any ISO-compliant organisation that seeks to protect itself against threats and hazards, both Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and Risk Assessment are imperative to business continuity management.

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Tags: Risk, Business Impact Analysis, Small Business

ISO 22317 Business Impact Analysis: A Recipe for Success?

Posted by John Robinson on Nov 04, 2015

The publishing of the ISO 22317 Business Impact Analysis Guidelines represents a significant step forward for the world of business continuity, but business continuity managers may find that it doesn’t offer as complete a recipe as they need.

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Tags: Business Continuity Management, Business Impact Analysis