ABSTRACT
Practitioners are versatile, they are conversant with a large number of organizations having varied technological environments, different management structures, and diverse geographical expanses. Business environment is increasingly becoming complex, new styles of business are emerging. Conducting a business impact analysis (BIA) for an organization makes it imperative for a practitioner to understand the business and the manifold dependencies and relationships and to study the enterprise as an extended enterprise. A preclude to business impact analysis is understanding the organizational context. A business continuity management process is considered as a project and will follow the same principles as followed under project management. The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) defines the work breakdown structure (WBS) as a deliverable oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team. Information technology is all pervasive and penetrates each and every segment of the organization.
