What's under the business continuity umbrella?

What's under the business continuity umbrella?


Although the need to implement business continuity management processes is understood by the majority of organisations, there is much variation in what is actually included under the auspices of 'business continuity'. Continuity Central recently conducted a survey amongst the readers of the website to discover what the trends are in this area.

Respondents were asked to indicate what areas of activity were the responsibility of the business continuity function / department in their organisation. The full results are presented in the table below.

Activity
Percentage saying that this was a business continuity responsibility

Business impact analysis
93.5%

Testing and exercising the business continuity plan
92.1%

Crisis management
84.9%

Training and awareness raising amongst non-business continuity staff
84.9%

Training business continuity staff
78.4%

Crisis team building and development
75.5%

Risk assessment
74.8%

IT disaster recovery planning
71.9%

Crisis communications planning
69.8%

Auditing of own business continuity plan
65.5%

Risk awareness culture development
59.7%

IT disaster recovery solution design
50.4%

Liaison with local authorities
50.4%

Operational risk management
48.2%

Auditing of supplier business continuity plans
46.0%