This book prepares the reader to apply the principles and methodologies for conducting a business impact analysis (BIA) as part of the BCM planning process. It will help you to identify:

- the critical business functions

- the impact of a disruption to these functions

- the minimum resources needed to recover these functions

- the inter-and intra-dependencies and 

- the vital records

 Instructions and guidelines are given on how to design, prepare, and conduct a BIA for your organization. Included is a practical easy-to-use BIA Questionnaire template which could be easily tailored to assist persons without previous BCM experience to develop and design one. The use of BIA Questionnaire will also be covered in detail. You will also learn how to review, verify, analyze and consolidate the information as well as to present and seek approval from your Executive Management.