The Business continuity program assessment can help your organization understand and measure its end-to-end business resilience program maturity against industry-leading practices. The assessment process guides you in determining best-practice management goals for business resilience and also provides you with recommendations for initiatives to move your business resilience program forward.

Broaden your focus from an IT-centric recovery effort to an enterprisewide resilience program under a centralized governance model

Implement industry best practices to enhance your business resilience management capabilities from year to year

Enhance your ability to achieve regulatory compliance

Integrate IT and business resilience in a structured manner to deliver results

IBM has developed the resilience maturity model to document the management principles that govern end-to-end business resilience protection across the enterprise. The resilience maturity model outlines the disciplines necessary to integrate business continuity, IT recovery, high availability and security capabilities in a structured manner, leveraging critical management processes to deliver meaningful results to your organization.

It is the implementation of the following disciplines that helps drive a successful business resilience program and yields a set of customized best practices to support enterprise business resilience:

• Governance: Provide clarity, definition, and guidance at the enterprise level to support the implementation of program initiatives
• Corporate Culture: Position the corporate mission and values to enable the program to adapt to and support business change
• Program Execution: Provide a consistent, enterprise approach to business resilience management to achieve program goals
• Enterprise Risk Management: Identify, mitigate, and control threats to protect the enterprise in a consistent manner
• Business Integration: Integrate all lines of business into the resilience program to provide end-to-end availability and protection of business processes
• Technology Solutions: Identify and implement recoverable, highly available, and security-rich technology solutions to support and protect the organization
• Value Assurance: Quantify, track, and communicate the value of the program to the organization