Training (BIA)
Identify your real priorities to build lasting resilience
Why take this training course?
Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is the first step in any business continuity process. It helps you understand what is truly critical in your organisation by identifying your essential business processes, associated business objects and their technical dependencies.
At Arkeion-Formation, we make BIA an operational exercise, aligned with the Ransom-Kick method and integrated into the Arkeion Group ecosystem.
Training programme
The training programme is divided into three stages:
- Discovery of basic concepts (processes, business functions, business objects, application dependencies).
- Practical application through case studies and collaborative workshops where participants build their own impact map.
- Consolidation with the production of a BIA deliverable that can be used the very next day within the organisation.
Typical duration: 2 days in person or 4 half-days remotely.
Syllabus
- Introduction to resilience and the central role of BIA
- Identification of critical activities and business objects
- Analysis of dependencies (applications, infrastructure, service providers)
- Definition of tolerance thresholds (business-oriented RTO/RPO)
- Construction of an impact matrix
- Feedback and prioritisation for BCP and DRP
The target audience for the training
This training is intended for:
- IT and security managers,
- Business managers involved in continuity,
- Managers who want to understand the real impacts of a crisis,
- Project teams in charge of BCP/DRP.
Training content
- Clear and illustrated teaching materials,
- Case studies inspired by real-life situations,
- Group workshops to jointly develop a BIA deliverable,
- Practical impact assessment exercises.
Expected results
At the end of the training, participants will be able to:
- Identify and document critical processes,
- Assess financial, operational and regulatory impacts,
- Prioritise activities to be restored in the event of a crisis,
- Produce a BIA deliverable that can be used for BCP and DRP.
Certification and tools
🎓 An Arkeion-Formation certificate is issued to each participant.
🏅 Organisations can go further by having their practices recognised through certification Arkeion-Certification, which assesses and promotes operational resilience maturity.
⚙️ Trainees can use Arkeionis, the AI agent of the Arkeion ecosystem, to automate data collection, generate their impact matrices and save time on documentation.
👉 This BIA training course is the first essential step in building a resilient and anti-fragile organisation.