Beyond the BIA – How Value Stream Mapping Reimagines Business Continuity and Drives Operational Resilience
Wed, Oct 1, 2025 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT
Business continuity planning has long been trapped in the same cycle: distribute lengthy BIA templates, chase hundreds of responses, and end up with binders full of static plans. The result? Low engagement, outdated information, and plans that rarely deliver when it matters.
Value Stream Mapping (VSM) offers a different path. Borrowed from Lean and Agile disciplines, VSM shifts the focus from forms and silos to the actual flow of critical services across people, processes, technology, and vendors. By mapping how value is created and delivered, organizations can quickly see what truly matters, where the risks lie, and how disruptions cascade across the enterprise.
While you don’t have to eliminate the BIA with the “VSM first approach”, you can jump straight into planning for the workflows that matter most, while still applying BIA techniques selectively where deeper impact analysis is needed. The result is faster momentum, more relevant plans, and less wasted effort.
This also bridges directly to operational resilience. Regulators and boards increasingly expect organizations to define critical services, set impact tolerances, and prove they can withstand severe but plausible disruptions. VSM makes those requirements actionable by revealing interdependencies, clarifying priorities, and aligning recovery strategies to what customers, patients, and stakeholders rely on most.
In this session, you’ll explore how VSM transforms continuity into a shared, business-led effort from the start. You’ll see a real-world example of a mapped value stream and learn how it directly translates into targeted BIAs, recovery priorities, downtime procedures, and resilience strategies—without the grind of traditional planning cycles.
Whether you’re looking to reinvigorate a mature program or launch continuity planning that finally sticks, this session will equip you with the tools and framing to make both continuity and operational resilience visible, actionable, and embraced across your organization.
