Running a BIA that holds
Three levels, one impact scale, and durations management owns
The BIA is the discipline's most frequently failed exercise: too long, too detailed, and concluded by a table where every activity is four-hour critical. This course teaches the method that produces real trade-offs — start at the top, impose a single scale, force comparison, and have it validated by those who bear the consequences.
Learning objectives
- Structure a BIA in three levels and avoid bogging down
- Build a multi-criteria impact scale that cannot be gamed
- Facilitate a BIA workshop without having the answers dictated to you
- Produce mutually consistent MTPD, RTO, RPO and MBCO
- Get the results validated by management and keep them current
Intended audience
- Continuity managers
- Risk analysts
- Consultants
- Business coordinators
Prerequisites
- Business Continuity Fundamentals
Detailed curriculum
Module 1
Frame before you collect
The framing decisions that determine whether the BIA lands or bogs down.
Module 2
Collecting without being dictated to
Workshop technique, questions that force thought, and handling the universal-criticality bias.
Module 3
Validate, publish, maintain
Turning the BIA into a binding decision rather than one more document.
Assessment method
Self-check questions throughout the lessons, with no recorded score. Where an associated track leads to a certification, that certification has a separate exam.
Document issued
This course does not, on its own, lead to a certificate. A track certification, where one exists, is issued after its exam is passed.
Continuity & Resilience editorial team