Business Continuity
Business Continuity — BIA, Plans, War Room, and Exercises
Observeri Business Continuity Management is where the organisation creates and maintains the business impact analysis register, and keeps disaster recovery and business continuity plans tied to that register.
BIA
Register kept current
Plans
Tied to the BIA
Live
War room decisions
Business continuity management for enterprises, SMEs, and startups
Crisis management runs in a war room, with actions and decisions taken in real time. Teams conduct BCP and DR exercises, and they can simulate the whole exercise from the first impact through the last decision.
Why it matters
The plan, the impact analysis, and the crisis are three different books
The BIA is a document
Business impact sits in a register that was last edited for an audit. Processes, dependencies, and recovery needs drift after that.
Plans are not tied to the impact
DR and BCP plans live beside the BIA. A change in impact does not change the plan that is supposed to recover it.
A crisis is a call chain
When something fails, actions and decisions move through messages. The war room, if it exists, is a meeting rather than a record.
An exercise is a slide
BCP and DR drills are scheduled, then described afterwards. The organisation never runs the whole exercise as a simulation.
The Observeri approach
One BIA register, plans that hang off it, and a room that can rehearse
A BIA register the organisation maintains
Users create and keep the business impact analysis register: the processes, what they depend on, and what the impact is if they stop.
DR and BCP plans tied to that register
Each disaster recovery and business continuity plan is tied to the BIA entries it recovers. The plan and the impact stay on one record.
A crisis war room in real time
Crisis management opens a war room. Actions and decisions are taken there as the event moves, with the room as the record.
Exercises that simulate the whole event
Teams conduct BCP and DR exercises, and they can simulate the whole exercise rather than walk through a fragment of it.
How it works
From the BIA register to a simulated exercise
Maintain the BIA register, tie DR and BCP plans to it, run crisis management in a war room, and simulate the whole BCP or DR exercise.
Step 1
Create the BIA register
Impact, process, and dependency
Open the business impact analysis register and record the processes, their dependencies, and the impact if they stop. The register is what the plans and the exercises hang from.
Includes
Platform features
What business continuity management holds together
BIA register
Create and maintain the business impact analysis: processes, dependencies, and impact.
Plans tied to the BIA
DR and BCP plans are maintained against the BIA entries they are written to recover.
Crisis management
A crisis is managed as an event, with the people, the impact, and the plan in one place.
War room
The war room stays open on the crisis, with actions and decisions taken as the event moves.
Real-time actions
Actions in the war room are recorded as they happen, on the crisis they belong to.
Real-time decisions
Decisions are taken in the room and kept with the action they follow.
BCP and DR exercises
Conduct exercises against the plans and the BIA entries those plans are tied to.
Full simulation
Simulate the whole exercise, from impact through the plan, the war room, and the decisions.
Outcomes
Impact, plans, and the room that rehearses them
The BIA is the register plans use
Impact is maintained in one register, and DR and BCP plans are tied to the entries in it.
A crisis has a room
Crisis management runs in a war room, with actions and decisions taken in real time.
An exercise can be the whole event
Teams conduct BCP and DR exercises, and they can simulate the exercise from the first impact to the last decision.
Platform capabilities
Register, plans, war room, and the exercise
The BIA register is the record. DR and BCP plans are tied to it. Crisis management uses a war room for real-time actions and decisions, and an exercise can simulate that whole path.
- BIA register created and maintained by the organisation
- DR and BCP plans tied to the BIA entries they recover
- Crisis management with a war room on the event
- Real-time actions and decisions inside the war room
- BCP and DR exercises conducted against the plans
- Simulation of the whole exercise, end to end
Continuity scope
BIA
Register
Plans
Tied to the BIA
Room
Live decisions
Drill
Full simulation
Rehearse the event before it is the event
Keep a BIA register, tie DR and BCP plans to it, run a crisis war room, and simulate the whole exercise.
Frequently asked questions
What does the BIA register hold?
The register is the business impact analysis: the processes, what they depend on, and the impact if they stop. Users create it and keep it current. DR and BCP plans are tied to the entries in it.
How does the war room work in a crisis?
Crisis management opens a war room on the event. Actions and decisions are taken there in real time, and they stay on the record of that crisis.
Can an exercise simulate the whole event?
Yes. Teams conduct BCP and DR exercises against the plans, and they can simulate the whole exercise, from the impact through the plan, the war room, and the decisions.
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