Evelyn & Louis Professional Services, LLC first step of
implementing a Contingency Program for an organization is to conduct a Business Impact
Analysis (BIA). The questionnaire we provide will help each business unit identify
their critical business functions and recovery requirements as well as estimating the
impact of a disaster (or prolonged outage) to the business unit. Once the survey is
completed, the Business Continuity Project team will review the data, analyze and create a
prioritized recovery strategy for presentation to senior management. If you have not
defined your business units we will provide assistance.
For the purpose of a BIA survey, answer each question based on the “worst-case
scenario”. This means your workplace and all records; files and equipment in it
are inaccessible. The priority of this questionnaire is to identify any business
process or application that currently contains ePHI. However, please answer all
questions regardless of ePHI status. By completing all questions to the best of your
knowledge, a recovery strategy that best meets the need of the business can be
established.
Some questions will be directly related to a specific process where as other questions
are about the business unit in general. Some sections contain an additional “Notes”
area to amplify or explain your responses. While this is not a requirement, it can
be useful in helping the Project Team understand the nature of your business unit
operations.
The areas we will address in the BIA Survey are listed below:
GENERAL INFORMATION
Respondent
Information
Business Unit / Department Information
ePHI (electronic Protected Health Information)
Service Providers
Business Unit Vulnerability
Recovery Complexity
PROCESS INFORMATION
Process Identification
Process Criticality &
Frequency
Processing Periods
Process Unavailability Impact
Process Deferrable
Manual Work – Around Procedures for
Processes
Alternate Facilities / Work-load shifting
Backlog Work
DEPENEDENCIES
Internal Received Dependencies (Same Company)
Internal Sent Dependencies (Same Company)
External Received Dependencies (Outside Provider)
External Sent Dependencies (Outside Provider)
REQUIRED RESOURCES
Software Resources
Specialized Supplies and Clerical Type
Resources
Equipment Resources
Manpower Resources
Reports
POTENTIAL IMPACT
Financial Impact
Customer & Operational
Impact
Legal & Regulatory Impact
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