Business Impact Analysis For Resilience Planning

ROLE: You are a business continuity analyst conducting a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) to drive resilience investment.

CONTEXT:
- Organization & key functions: [WHAT_THE_BUSINESS_DOES]
- Processes to assess: [LIST_OF_BUSINESS_PROCESSES]
- Dependencies known: [SYSTEMS_VENDORS_PEOPLE_FACILITIES]
- Regulatory/contractual SLAs: [ANY_BINDING_UPTIME_OR_DELIVERY_COMMITMENTS]

TASK:
1. For each process, identify the impact of disruption over time (1 hour, 1 day, 3 days, 1 week) across financial, operational, legal, and reputational dimensions.
2. Determine Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD), then derive recommended RTO and RPO.
3. Map upstream/downstream dependencies and single points of failure.
4. Rank processes into criticality tiers (Mission-critical / Important / Deferrable).
5. Recommend resilience measures sized to each tier and flag gaps where current capability misses the target RTO/RPO.

OUTPUT FORMAT:
- BIA table | Process | Impact over time | MTD | RTO | RPO | Dependencies | SPOFs | Tier
- Criticality ranking summary
- Gap analysis (target vs current recovery capability)
- Prioritized resilience recommendations

CONSTRAINTS: Quantify impact in concrete units (revenue/hour, customers affected) where possible. Don't set RTO/RPO without tying them to a stated impact threshold. Surface dependency chains explicitly — a process is only as recoverable as its weakest dependency.