Enterprise Risk Assessment and Business Impact Analysis: Best Practices

This book is a guide to best practices in understanding risk and business impact. It provides essential guidance for the identification, management and control of risks confronting businesses—What might happen? How will our enterprise be affected? What will the impact be? Answering these questions accurately and objectively is essential to Business Continuity Management, business success—and even business survival.

The helpful examples all have their roots in real cases and come heavily-laden with pragmatism. Over fifteen years experience in blue chip environments, large and small, public and private, has gone into developing the methods described. Others come with a respected pedigree from a variety of industries. Your own “right way” for risk management means picking, matching and tailoring from the cases, guidance and examples provided, and building on existing best practice within your organization.

About the Authors

Andrew Hiles, FBCI, is founder and Chairman of Survive, the international user group for business continuity planning and was a founding Director of the Business Continuity Institute, the international body for certification of business continuity professionals. He is a founder Director of Kingswell, international consultants. Having commenced his management career with the Royal Air Force, he pioneered IT systems before leaving to take up a position within the Finance Department of London Transport. Subsequently in their Central Productivity Unit he was a Senior Projects Manager and later became responsible for the business re-engineering function, implementing new services and major technical projects. He left to take up a position with the UK Post Office as their first Business Systems Consultant responsible for major projects. Andrew then joined the UK Atomic Energy Authority at the Harwell Laboratories where he managed the supercomputing, mainframe and other bureau and facilities management services.

Andrew was a founding director of Kingswell, an international consulting company with a blue chip client base specializing in Enterprise Risk Management, Business Continuity, and Disaster Recovery and in Service Management. Andrew is a pragmatic global consultant and trainer. He is also an international speaker on risk management, business continuity and contingency planning and has featured on conference programs in the USA, Southern Africa, Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific Rim. He has presented workshops and seminars.