BCM Cycle
BC Plans
Metrics
Business Impact Analysis
Validation
100
Strategic and tactical capability of the organization to plan for and respond to incidents and business disruptions in order to continue business operations at an acceptable pre-defined level
What is Business Continuity Management?
100
Documents used as guides to be used in case of incidents involving the organization.
What are Business Continuity Plans?
100
Maximum allowable time before activity MUST be restarted at a certain percentage of normal operations.
What is Recovery Time Objective (RTO)?
100
Process of analyzing business functions and the effect that a business disruption might have upon them
What is Business Impact Analysis?
100
The activity done to enhance the appreciation , knowledge, and skill to implement the set out strategies in the BCPs.
What is Exercise?
200
Reviews and assesses an organization in terms of what its objectives are, how it functions and the constraints of the environment in which it operates.
What is Analysis?
200
Plan used as initial response when the incident directly impacts human lives.
What is Emergency Response Plan?
200
is the point in time to which systems and data must be recovered after a disaster has occurred.
What is Recovery Point Objective (RPO)?
200
These are the processes that would have to undergo a BIA.
What are Critical Processes?
200
Can be raised as part of BC team meetings. Where they discuss relevant issues, etc. on different plans.
What is Discussion-based?
300
This is where the plans are developed and documented.
What is Implementation?
300
Plan used to guide the organization in how communications should be handled during business continuity related events.
What is Crisis Communication Plan?
300
Duration after which an organization’s viability will be irrevocably threatened if product and service delivery cannot be resumed. The maximum time for the critical processes to be returned to normal operations or 100%.
What is Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption (MTPoD)?
300
The minimum output/processing time of this process taking into consideration normal disruptions/acceptable or tolerable downtime expected by your customers/stakeholders.
What is Minimum Standard Statement?
300
This is the Full testing of an actual plan. where people are mobilized to implement and meet planned activities and objectives.
What is Simulation?
400
Confirms the BCM programme meets objectives set in the BC Policy and that the BCP is fit for purpose.
What is Validation?
400
The plan used for recover from a crisis scenario back to full service levels.
What is Business Recovery Plan?
400
The measure acquired during the conduct of different tests and exercises.
What are Validation Effectiveness Ratings?
400
Identifies which service/process/department, etc depends on and is dependent on the process being subjected to BIA.
What are Interdependencies?
400
The concept of balancing the amount of resources spent for the test to be conducted and the information or data gathered as a result.
What is Cost and Benefit?
500
Enables the BC capability to be established and maintained – appropriate to the size and complexity of the organization
What is Policy & Programme Management?
500
The plan or plans used to restore business operations to a minimum level.
What are Crisis Management Plans?
500
Minimally acceptable collection of business continuity services and/or products that is acceptable to an organization or industry to achieve its business objectives that can be influenced or dictated by regulation or legislation level of business continuity.
What is Minimum Business Continuity Objective?
500
The criteria used to determine at which point in time can the process be down before experiencing major effects.
What is Impact Criteria?
500
The exercise where actors of the plan are gathered in one room. Then provided with a scenario where they will be providing their respective actions in certain moments as the scenario progresses.
What is Table Top Exercise?