Five-day professional development program. Approximately 25-30 training hours. Final arrangements are confirmed in writing.
Course Overview
Identify time-sensitive activities and dependencies to support realistic continuity decisions.
This five-day professional development program focuses on bia scope and stakeholder engagement, impact categories and time horizons, critical dependencies and resource needs. Participants connect the learning with their organizational responsibilities and develop a business impact analysis workbook and recommendations.
The program uses fictional or anonymized cases and management-level exercises. It can be adapted for an organization or a mixed professional group.
Learning Outcomes
Explain the responsibilities and evidence needed for bia scope and stakeholder engagement.
Evaluate management arrangements for impact categories and time horizons.
Develop a practical working approach to critical dependencies and resource needs.
Recommend review and follow-up arrangements for recovery priorities and management validation.
Prepare and present a business impact analysis workbook and recommendations supported by clear assumptions, priorities and accountable actions.
Who Should Attend
Risk and continuity managers, security leaders, operational managers, crisis team members and senior professionals responsible for organizational resilience.
Relevant organizational or supervisory experience is recommended. Participant responsibilities, prior knowledge and learning objectives are reviewed before confirming the agenda.
Training Methodology
Instructor-led discussion, anonymized case analysis, guided drafting, group exercises, peer review and a final applied presentation.
Learning assessment combines a baseline discussion, review of practical outputs and an end-of-program action plan. The final assessment and completion requirements are agreed in the proposal.
Course Tools and Templates
BIA scope and stakeholder engagement worksheet — indicative workshop output.
Impact categories and time horizons worksheet — indicative workshop output.
Critical dependencies and resource needs worksheet — indicative workshop output.
Recovery priorities and management validation worksheet — indicative workshop output.
Business impact analysis workbook and recommendations — indicative workshop output.
Delivery Requirements
Available by arrangement as classroom, live online or in-house training. Standard duration: five training days, approximately 25-30 hours. Online timing and time zone are agreed with the organization.
A laptop and standard document-editing software are recommended for drafting exercises. Cases can be completed with fictional information; confidential operational documents are not required.
This is an independent professional development program. No ICAO, IATA, ASIS or regulatory accreditation, official certification or authorization is claimed. Any regulated role-specific training must be arranged with appropriately approved providers.
Course Customization
The agenda can emphasize bia scope and stakeholder engagement or recovery priorities and management validation according to the participant roles and organizational priorities.
Dates, destination, trainer profile, fees, training language, included services and certificate wording are confirmed in a written proposal. No scheduled session or fixed price is implied by this page.
Proposed Five-Day Course Outline
Day 1 – BIA scope and stakeholder engagement
Establish the scope of bia scope and stakeholder engagement. Map responsibilities and evidence needs, and compare the current position with the desired management outcome.
Practical output: BIA scope and stakeholder engagement worksheet
Day 2 – Impact categories and time horizons
Examine impact categories and time horizons through an anonymized organizational case. Identify gaps, document assumptions and compare feasible management options.
Practical output: Impact categories and time horizons worksheet
Day 3 – Critical dependencies and resource needs
Apply critical dependencies and resource needs in a facilitated group exercise. Develop a draft working document and use peer review to test clarity, ownership and practicality.
Practical output: Critical dependencies and resource needs worksheet
Day 4 – Recovery priorities and management validation
Review recovery priorities and management validation. Define follow-up responsibilities, useful measures and escalation arrangements, and test how the recommendations would work during a service change.
Practical output: Recovery priorities and management validation worksheet
Day 5 – Business impact analysis workshop
Complete the business impact analysis workshop. Integrate the preceding exercises into a business impact analysis workbook and recommendations, present the recommendations and agree a 30-60-90 day action plan.
Practical output: Business impact analysis workbook and recommendations
