How essential is conducting a business impact analysis to workforce continuity?
It’s a question of establishing priorities and the criticality of each component. So when we’re doing a business impact analysis (BIA), the BIA helps establish a number of things. First of all, by determining the impact of an outage of a certain business process to your company, we are able to establish criticality and potential losses which allow us to situate things as a recovery priority. It also allows us to establish recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs) from a workforce continuity perspective, which is very important to determine how quickly we need things back up and running, and to which point. Finally, it allows us to establish the relationship or interdependencies between specific processes, which again goes to establishing the RPO. So in order to understand what we need, we need to understand what the impact is to the business. Some things may be able to wait, other things can not. If you’re not going to deploy a continuity strategy for the ent
