Many organizations rely on surveys to collect everything from impacts to paperclips. Automated collection of both Impact and other Planning data without a clear means of utilizing the results (other than burying them in a Plan) are complex and flawed exercises.
The BIA isn’t dead, but its original form has been unrecognizably beaten up. Reliance on an inexact methodology doesn’t make BIA’s useless. To paraphrase Mark Twain: the death of the BIA has been greatly exaggerated.
Once, Business Impact Analyses did simply that: analyzed the impact of disrupted functions and systems to rank organizational criticality and recovery prioritization. BIA’s that stay true to their original intent can be very valuable.
