Six questions about your own company

Six simple questions. About your own company they rarely are.

Twenty minutes, short answers in your own words. If you do not know something, write that down: it is the most useful answer.

1. Continuity

What must not stop?

The process or the service your customers notice first, and after how long.

Your answer

2. Dependency

What does that depend on?

The systems, data, people and suppliers it runs on. Include the party you do not manage yourself.

Your answer

3. Ownership

Who is accountable?

A person, by name. If you get no further than a department or a supplier, write that down.

Your answer

4. Exposure

What can go wrong?

What happens to your business, not what the technology does. Not the interface that fails, but the week without invoices.

Your answer

5. Measure

What is in place?

The agreements, provisions and contracts that exist, and what they must do when it goes wrong.

Your answer

6. Evidence

Where is the proof?

The document it follows from, with a date: a test report, a contract, a log entry. No document but still certain? Write: assumed.

Your answer

The sentence that follows

Where did you get stuck? Your question is there. Complete the sentence.

I want to know whetherbecausedepends on it.

No score and no verdict: whether your answers hold up only shows once someone has seen the evidence behind them.

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