Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption MTPOD

Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption MTPOD

The standard BS 25999 [1]requires the dependencies of critical activities to be identified (other activities, assets, resources, suppliers and outsource partners).

BS 25999-2, 20 Nov. 2007 Section 4 says that the goal of a Business Impact Analysis BIA is to “determine the impact of any disruption of the activities that support the organization’s key products and services.”

A key aspect of determining the impact of a disruption is identifying what BS 25999 calls the “Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption,” or MTPOD.

BS 25999 defines MTPOD as the “duration after which an organization’s viability will be irrevocably threatened if product and service delivery cannot be resumed.”

MTPOD is just a useful metric that determines how much unavailability you can stand before everything crashes and burns and can’t be put back together again.

A corrigendum by Jacque Rupert for BS 25999’,Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption, which was approved on June 9th 2009 by [[3]]BSI’s BCM/1 standard development committee.

MTPOD is the maximum amount of time that an enterprise’s key products or services can be unavailable or undeliverable before its stakeholders see unacceptable consequences.

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References:
2. ^ http://www.bsi-global.com/
1. ^ http://www.continuitycentral.com/feature0675.html
1. ^ http://www.continuitycentral.com/feature0677.html
1. ^ http://www.bccmanagement.com/mtpod.html
1. ^ http://e-janco.com
1. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BS_25999
1. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSI_Group
1. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_Tolerable_Period_of_Disruption

Further reading

BS 25999-1:2006 Business Continuity Management Part 1 – [[4]]British Standards Institution
BS 25999-2:2007 Business Continuity Management Part 2 – [[5]]British Standards Institution