Business Impact Analysis and Critical Function Mapping
Learn to spot the functions your organisation cannot afford to lose and plan around them.
Start Course Now →When disruption hits, you need to know which functions to protect first and why. This beginner-friendly course shows you how to map critical functions, trace their dependencies, and use business impact analysis to set clear recovery priorities. It is built for anyone taking on continuity planning, risk, or operational decision-making for the first time.
Walk out able to actually help.
Pinpoint the critical functions and dependencies that keep your organisation running.
Weigh the impact of disruption and translate it into recovery priorities.
Work through a full business impact analysis and document your findings clearly.
Connect your BIA to wider emergency and continuity plans.
Built around the moment it matters.
Introduction to Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and Critical Function Mapping
Sets out what a BIA is and how it fits within business continuity planning.
Identifying Critical Functions and Dependencies
Shows you how to single out critical business functions and map what they rely on.
Assessing Impacts and Setting Priorities
Covers judging disruption impacts and defining recovery objectives and priorities.
Conducting a Business Impact Analysis
Walks through the BIA process, then documenting and reviewing your findings.
Integrating BIA with Continuity Planning
Links your BIA to emergency and continuity plans, grounded in a real-world case study.
Where this learning adds value.
Build practical capability you can apply immediately, and evidence of structured professional development.
Every programme sits on a pathway, so you can progress from foundation into the specialist streams your role or sector demands.
Contractors and suppliers are routinely asked to evidence trained personnel — structured training supports that case where the course is relevant.
Digital credentials can be independently verified online by employers and credential reviewers. Recognition requirements may vary by employer, jurisdiction, profession and certification type.
A certificate that carries weight.
Apexis Certificate of Completion
Issued by Apexis Risk Innovation Group on successful completion of the programme requirements. Where digital verification is enabled, employers can verify the credential record online.
Apexis Risk Innovation Group is an authorised TEEX Cooperative Learning Center. Selected Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) programmes delivered through Apexis are clearly identified by course name and code.
Who you learn it from matters.
Selected TEEX programmes are available through Apexis Risk Innovation Group, an authorised Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) Cooperative Learning Center, and are clearly identified by course name and code.
Programmes are designed by people who have done the job, around real workplace needs rather than textbook abstractions.
Content is contextualised to the operating environments our clients actually work in — energy, industrial, public safety and emergency response.
Every programme identifies who issues the credential, what it represents and how it can be verified.
Ready when you are.
- Self-paced online modules
- Five guided modules with paired lessons
- Around three hours of learning
- Real-world application and case study
- Certificate of completion