BIA
Business Impact Analysis Consultancy
Establishes what your organisation cannot afford to lose, and for how long.
المملكة العربية السعودية: نخدم العملاء في الرياض وجدة والدمام والجبيل وينبع وسائر المدن الصناعية
- Losses Modelled Per Hour
- Hidden Dependencies Mapped
- Recovery Targets Justified
- Insurance Cover Right Sized
Free · 15 minutes · assured discount
Score your readiness out of 100 before you spend a rupee.
Know exactly what to ask for — instead of being sold a package.
- Practice area
- استمرارية الأعمال
- Industries
- 5
- Delivery
- Onsite, remote, hybrid
لماذا تستحق الاستشارة المتخصصة
نادراً ما تُخفق المنشآت في BIA لأن المعيار صعب، بل لأن الأدلة لا تطابق ما يطلبه المدقّق.
المعيار يقول لك ماذا، لا كيف
المعايير مكتوبة لتنطبق على كل منشأة، ولهذا بالذات لا تخبرك أبداً بما ينبغي فعله في منشأتك أنت. ترجمة البند إلى عملية قائمة عندك هي العمل الحقيقي.
المدقّقون يبحثون عن أدلة بعينها
الاستشاري الذي حضر مئات التدقيقات يعرف أي السجلات تُطلب فعلاً، وأي الإجابات لا تصمد أمام سؤال المتابعة.
وقت لا يملكه فريقك
القيام بذلك داخلياً يعني سحب أفضل موظفيك من عمل يدرّ دخلاً لعدة أشهر. ومعظم المنشآت تجد أن هذا يكلّف أكثر من الاستعانة بمن يقوم به.
توثيق يوافق طريقة عملكم
حزمة قوالب جاهزة تسقط من اليوم الأول لأن لا أحد يتعرّف على العملية التي تصفها. التوثيق يجب أن يطابق الواقع كي ينجو من التدقيق.
رأي مستقل في موقعك الحالي
التقييمات الداخلية متساهلة بطبعها. تحليل الفجوة من الخارج يخبرك بالجزء غير المريح مبكراً، بينما إصلاحه ما زال رخيصاً.
مسار عليه تاريخ واقعي
معرفة ما يمكن ضغطه وما لا يمكن هي الفرق بين اللحاق بموعد المناقصة وتفويته.
Something about BIA this page has not answered?
ما الذي يمنحك إياه BIA
Certification is a commercial decision before it is a technical one. This is where the return usually shows up.
Losses Modelled Per Hour
Quantifying revenue, penalty and reputational loss over time gives finance the number behind every continuity investment request you make.
Hidden Dependencies Mapped
The analysis usually reveals one supplier, one system or one individual that the whole operation quietly depends upon.
Recovery Targets Justified
Objectives derived from impact data survive scrutiny, unlike targets chosen because the number sounded reassuring in a meeting.
Insurance Cover Right Sized
Knowing your real exposure stops you paying for cover you do not need while staying underinsured where it would actually hurt.
القطاعات التي ينطبق عليها BIA
Open a sector to see every standard it is usually asked for.
Have a tender document or buyer requirement on BIA to send us?
Send us the detailsSee the documentation
اطّلع على هيكل النظام قبل أن تلتزم
هذه هي مجموعة الوثائق نفسها التي ستستلمها، لا عيّنة عامة. افتحها، واقرأ ما بداخلها، واسأل عمّا لا يتضح.
BIA بالتفصيل
Working out which activities the business cannot do without
A business impact analysis establishes what a disruption would cost, activity by activity, and how fast that cost accumulates. It is the analytical step that has to come before any continuity or recovery planning, because until you know which activities matter most and how long each can be interrupted, every recovery investment is a guess. ISO 22301 requires one, as do most regulators supervising operational resilience. It examines the organisation's activities, not its servers.
It is commissioned by organisations certifying to ISO 22301, by firms under regulatory resilience expectations, by companies whose largest customers now ask about continuity in supplier contracts, and by boards after a disruption made the priorities obvious the hard way. Manufacturers, hospitals, banks, logistics operators, business process providers and utilities are frequent clients. Group functions such as payroll and treasury usually turn out to be far more critical than anyone had assumed.
Interviews, dependency chains and impact measured over time
We work through the organisation activity by activity with the managers who run them. For each one we establish what it produces, who depends on it inside and outside the business, and what happens if it stops, measured as financial loss, regulatory breach, contractual penalty, safety consequence and reputational damage. The impact is plotted over time, because an activity that is tolerable for four hours may be ruinous at four days, and that curve drives every decision that follows.
From the curve we derive a maximum tolerable period of disruption and a recovery time objective for each activity, then work backwards into the resources recovery would need: people with specific skills, applications and data, premises and equipment, utilities, key suppliers and outsourced services. Dependencies between activities are mapped, since restoring a process whose upstream input is still down achieves nothing. Single points of failure surface here, usually more of them than expected.
Priorities, resource requirements and a foundation for continuity planning
The output is a prioritised list of activities with recovery objectives, an impact analysis for each, the resources required to run at a minimum acceptable level, a dependency and supplier map, and a register of single points of failure with options set against each. Findings are validated with senior management, because recovery priorities are a business decision and the analysis exists to inform that decision rather than replace it. MSCi runs the analysis and the workshops directly.
With the analysis done, continuity and recovery planning becomes straightforward, since the requirements are already stated in writing. Arguments about which system gets restored first are settled before the incident instead of during it. And several findings are worth acting on immediately whatever happens to the plan: a supplier with no alternative, a process only one person can perform, a data set with no tested restore. Those are cheap to fix in advance.
الطريق إلى شهادة BIA
- 1Gap analysis
- 2Documentation
- 3Training
- 4Implementation
- 5Internal audits
- 6Closure of gaps
- 7Management review
- 8Certification audit
- 9Surveillance audits
Want to see what BIA looks like in practice before you commit?
أكثر ما يُسأل عن BIA
What does BIA involve in practice?
In practice that means documented processes matching how you really work, records showing the system running, people trained on their part of it, and an internal audit completed before anyone external arrives.
What is a realistic timeline for BIA?
Plan on somewhere between eight and sixteen weeks. Organisations with existing procedures move faster; those starting from nothing spend most of the time on documentation and getting records actually made rather than promised.
Do you issue the BIA certificate yourselves?
No, and no consultant should. The certificate comes from an independent accredited certification body after their own audit. We prepare you to pass it and we are there on the day to close findings. That separation is exactly what makes the certificate worth holding.
What does BIA consultancy cost?
There is no useful list price for BIA. Two organisations of the same size can differ by a factor of three depending on existing documentation. A short scoping call gets you an accurate written number.
Which industries need BIA?
We map BIA to 5 sectors and it sits in our استمرارية الأعمال practice. Organisations usually arrive because a specific buyer, regulator or tender committee has asked. Tell us who is asking and we will confirm whether this is the standard that satisfies them.
Do you have to visit our premises?
We work onsite, remote or a mix. Multi site groups often use remote sessions for documentation and reserve site visits for the gap analysis and the audit itself, which keeps travel cost out of the fee.
Need a fast steer on BIA before your next meeting?
مستعد للبدء في BIA؟
Book a short session and we will tell you what is involved, how long it takes and what it costs.