Five steps to a business impact analysis in disaster recovery planning: BIA 101

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Five steps to a business impact analysis in disaster recovery planning: BIA 101

Written by Phil on April 7, 2010 in Business Continuity.

The business impact analysis (BIA) is the key step in developing a disaster recovery (DR) plan or a business continuity (BC) plan.

The business impact analysis establishes the needs of an organization for recoverability and sets the requirements for its recovery strategy and ultimately its recovery plan. This tip outlines five steps for a better business impact analysis in your DR plan, or BIA 101.

A business impact analysis is a means to an end, that being recoverability, if not resilience. The quality of a BIA should therefore be judged not on what it says but on what it accomplishes.

See Five steps to a business impact analysis in disaster recovery planning: BIA 101 by Steve Ross for SearchDisasterRecovery.com.