By Paul Kirvan, FBCI, CBCP, CISSP Use this template to perform business impact analyses. Formulate questions to elicit responses for insertion into specific categories. Organizing all columns into a spreadsheet simplifies the analysis process. This collection of data facilitates the process of identifying the most critical business functions, the financial and operational impact if they are disrupted, strategies to recover them and time frame targets to achieve recovery.

BU Name

Head Count

Parent Process

Priority Ranking

RTO

RPO

PP Depends on

PP Required by

Business Unit Name â Self-explanatory
Head Count â Number of full-time staff in the business unit
Parent Process â Brief description of the principal activities the unit performs, e. g., sales, contractor interface, or investor relationship management
Priority Ranking â Subjective ranking of parent process(es) according to criticality to the business unit
Recovery Time Objective â Time needed to recover the parent process to business almost as usual following a disruption
Recovery Point Objective â Point in time to which parent process work should be restored following a disruption
Parent Process Depends On â Names of organizations and/or processes the parent process needs for normal operations
Parent Process Required By â Names of organizations and/or processes that need the parent process for normal operations