BCM Survey

An interactive tool to teach principles of the BCMM® evaluation while measuring the estimated maturity of an enterprise. This questionnaire will seek to determine the Level of the BCMM® process at which your organization currently resides. For a complete description of the BCMM® program, click here.

Please have a piece of paper handy as you progress through this Questionnaire. Jot down any thoughts, comments, questions or concerns you would like to share. Please note the Question Number associated with any comments you may have. You will have the opportunity to submit your feedback at the end.

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User Characteristics
1) Do you report within or outside of your company's Information Technology (IT) Department?
		Outside
		Inside

2) What is your position within the company?
		Executive, director or other senior manager
		Manager
		Staff Member

3) What is your company's primary industry?
		Financial/Banking
		Government/Non-Profit
		Healthcare
		Information/Data Processing Services
		Insurance
		Manufacturing/Industrial
		Retail/Wholesale/Merchandising
		Telecommunications
		Utilities
		Other

4) How many people are employed by your company? (all locations)
		< 100
		100 - 999
		1,000 - 9,999
		10,000 or more

5) Which corporate function has enterprise-wide responsibility for BCM in your company?
		Compliance/Audit
		Finance
		Human Resources
		IT
		Legal
		Risk Management
		Other corporate function
		No corporate function

6) How many full-time and part-time (at least 33% of responsibility) business continuity professionals are there within your company?
		0
		1
		2
		3
		4-6
		7-9
		10 or more

Your Current State-of-Preparedness
Click here to view the 10 Subject Areas from the DRI/BCI Professional Practices before answering the next several questions. Use the "Back" function on your browser to return to this survey when ready. Also review the graph below as being representative of the complete timeline for how your company would respond before, during and after a disastrous event.
Business Continuity Management Life Cycle

7) How would you rate your IT Department's "state-of-preparedness"?
		Thoroughly prepared
		DR plans in place and tested / updated at least annually
		Well prepared
		DR plans in place and tested / updated in past 2 years
		Somewhat prepared
		DR plans were once prepared but have not been maintained
		Marginally prepared
		We talk about what we would do and think we could survive a disaster, but no written plans
		Not prepared
		No written plans – no informal plans

8) How would you rate the "state-of-preparedness" of all the other functions within your company?
		Thoroughly prepared
		Business Continuity plans in place and tested / updated at least annually
		Well prepared
		Business Continuity plans in place and tested / updated in past 2 years
		Somewhat prepared
		Business Continuity plans were once prepared but have not been maintained
		Marginally prepared
		We talk about what we would do and think we could survive a disaster, but no written plans
		Not prepared
		No written plans – no informal plans

9) Using the DRI/BCI Professional Practices as a guide, how extensively has your company implemented BCM?
		Most critical functions have implemented most principles for more than 2 years
		Most critical functions implemented most principles for the first time within the last 24 months
		Most critical functions are now implementing most principles for the first time
		Several critical functions have implemented most principles
		At least one critical function has implemented most principles
		At least one critical function has implemented some principles
		No one has implemented any principles

10) How would you rate your company's current efforts to sustain its Business Continuity Plans?
		All plans are updated and tested at least once annually
		Most plans are updated and tested at least annually
		Some plans are updated and tested at least annually
		Only a few plans are updated at least annually
		Our BCM plans are out-of-date (They make attractive bookends!)

11) How strongly is IT driving BCM in your company?
		Driving BCM to the rest of the enterprise
		Leading through example
		Sharing experience, skills and tools
		Doing their own thing and no one is driving BCM
		BCM leadership is coming from somewhere other than IT


Enterprise Implementation Prerequisites
Click here to view the "Senior Management Commitment" page before you answer the next question.
12) How would you characterize the level of senior management commitment to sponsor and fund enterprise-wide BCM in your company?
		Enterprise BCM is already an established priority
		Management has agreed to make enterprise BCM an established priority within next 24 months
		The Business Case for implementing enterprise BCM is under development and/or review
		Management agrees BCM is important, but there are more pressing priorities
		Management does not recognize the strategic importance of enterprise BCM

13) How effective is your company's BCM policy?
		A practical policy is in place and it is adequately enforced
		A practical policy is in place but it is under-enforced
		Practical policy and enforcement method is under development
		Rudimentary or impractical policy exists and is largely not enforced
		No BCM policy in place

14) How strong is the Business Case for BCM within your company today whether or not the Business Case has been discussed with or agreed to by senior management?
		Compelling, strategic value supported by quantified financial and other business impacts
		Significant business value supported by some quantified business impact data
		Thought to be valuable - management perception largely consistent across enterprise
		Somewhat useful – management perception inconsistent across enterprise
		No value – management largely uncommitted on this subject

15) How important will e-Commerce be to your business within the next 2 years?
		Mission critical