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Minimum Business Continuity Objectives and its connection to the work load in th

We need some clarification as it relates to the Minimum Business Continuity Objectives and its connection to the work load in the peak periods. We normally develop our BC Plans and recovery strategy based on minimum numbers i.e. minimum staff Reqd to recover operations immediately after the disruptive event. The BIA questionnaire is suggesting that we build the MBCO on the peak period numbers transaction and resources which is opposite to what we do

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DejanK Jan 12, 2016

The point of business continuity is to prepare you for the worst case scenario - and worst case scenario is that a disruption hits you in a period when you have a highest workload. In my book Becoming Resilient https://advisera.com/books/becoming-resilient-the-definitive-guide-to-iso-22301-implementation/ I gave an example of a bank - typically, banks have the highest workload in December, and this is what you have to analyze in your BIA Questionnaire.

However, this doesn't mean that your Minimum Business Continuity Objective (MBCO) will be to prepar e for a full (100%) capacity of your highest workload - e.g. you can decide that you are fine with preparing with 60% of your capacity immediately after the recovery, but again those 60% must be calculated compared to highest workload.

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