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# Business Continuity Metrics and KPIs: 12 Examples to Track
Michael Herrera
Updated on: November 02, 2026
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Business continuity metrics should help you decide what needs attention, who owns the work, and whether recovery arrangements have been tested. A count of completed plans tells you something about coverage. It does not tell you whether those plans will work.
**In short**
Use a small set of measures that distinguishes program coverage from demonstrated capability. Define the scope, calculation, evidence, owner, and review interval for each measure. Report gaps and untested assumptions alongside the score.
## Start with coverage and current information
The following twelve examples are practical options, not a mandatory reporting framework or a list of features available in every software product. Choose the measures that support your program's decisions. For each percentage, divide the numerator by the denominator and multiply by 100. Record an empty denominator as not applicable, not as a successful result.
### 1. Current business impact analyses
**Calculate:** Critical functions with a reviewed BIA inside your agreed review interval, divided by critical functions in scope.
**Use it:** Identify functions whose recovery priorities may rest on outdated information. The BC lead should confirm what counts as reviewed, including whether material process, system, or supplier changes have been considered. A recent document date alone is weak evidence of a current [business impact analysis](https://bcmmetrics.com/blog/business-impact-analysis-example).
### 2. Approved recovery plan coverage
**Calculate:** Critical functions with an approved recovery plan, divided by critical functions requiring a plan.
**Use it:** Show where a plan is missing or still awaiting approval. The plan coordinator should use an agreed scope and approval definition. Report coverage separately from exercise results, because an approved plan has not necessarily demonstrated that it can meet its recovery requirements.
### 3. Documented recovery strategy coverage
**Calculate:** Critical functions with a documented and approved recovery strategy, divided by critical functions in scope.
**Use it:** Find gaps between BIA priorities and the arrangements intended to meet them. Function owners should identify dependencies, responsibilities, and known constraints. A named alternate location or supplier is not enough if access, capacity, or availability has not been checked.
### 4. Response contact validation
**Calculate:** Required response contacts validated within the review interval, divided by required response contacts.
**Use it:** Identify contact records that need checking. The response coordinator should define the validation method and include deputies where the plan requires them. Report a document review separately from an actual contact or notification test.
### 5. Exercise coverage
**Calculate:** Critical functions due for an exercise that completed one during the interval, divided by critical functions due for an exercise.
**Use it:** Identify parts of the program that have not received the planned level of testing. The exercise lead should record the exercise type and scope. Participation in a discussion does not establish that a system restore, alternate site, or operational workaround has been tested.
### 6. Critical supplier evidence coverage
**Calculate:** Critical suppliers with current continuity evidence reviewed against defined criteria, divided by critical suppliers requiring review.
**Use it:** Prioritize supplier follow-up. The supplier manager should record the evidence reviewed, its date, relevant service dependencies, and limitations. Receiving a continuity document is different from verifying that the supplier can support your recovery requirement.
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## Measure tested capability and follow-through
### 7. Exercise objective achievement
**Calculate:** Tested objectives that met predefined acceptance criteria, divided by objectives tested.
**Use it:** Explain what an exercise demonstrated. The exercise lead should retain observations supporting each result and list untested objectives separately. Agree the acceptance criteria before the exercise so that a positive score does not simply reflect an easier interpretation afterward.
### 8. Recovery time objective achievement
**Calculate:** Tested recoveries completed within their approved RTO, divided by tested recoveries with an approved RTO.
**Use it:** Compare observed recovery time with the target. The recovery lead should state when timing starts and ends, which service level was restored, and what conditions were tested. A tabletop discussion can examine the recovery process but cannot demonstrate an elapsed system restoration time.
### 9. Recovery point objective achievement
**Calculate:** Tested data recoveries that met the approved RPO, divided by tested data recoveries with an approved RPO.
**Use it:** Compare the demonstrated data-loss interval with the requirement. The IT recovery lead should retain evidence of the recovery point and validation results. A successful backup job alone does not establish that usable data can be recovered within the required interval.
### 10. Overdue corrective actions
**Calculate:** Count open corrective actions whose agreed due date has passed.
**Use it:** Identify work that needs intervention. The action coordinator should separate material recovery gaps from minor administrative tasks and show the responsible owner. Explain approved exceptions rather than moving due dates simply to improve the report.
### 11. Corrective actions closed on time
**Calculate:** Actions due in the interval that were verified closed by their due date, divided by all actions due in that interval.
**Use it:** Assess follow-through over time. The action coordinator should retain the due date used for reporting and the closure evidence. Closing a task in a tracker is not enough if the underlying gap remains or a necessary retest has not occurred.
### 12. Assessment requirements supported by evidence
**Calculate:** Assessed, applicable requirements with current reviewed supporting evidence, divided by assessed, applicable requirements.
**Use it:** Identify assessment answers that need substantiation. The assessment lead should document applicability, the evidence needed, and any unassessed requirements separately. This measures evidence coverage, not certification or a guarantee of compliance.
## Turn the measures into a decision
[NIST SP 800-84](https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublication800-84.pdf) distinguishes discussion-based tabletop exercises from operational testing. Its guidance concerns IT plans and capabilities. Use that distinction when interpreting exercise evidence, without treating the twelve measures here as NIST requirements.
Start with a reporting set your team can maintain. For every measure, name the decision it supports, the owner, the source record, the review interval, and the action triggered by an exception. Use your approved recovery requirements, obligations, and risk decisions to set thresholds rather than borrowing a universal target.
Read related measures together. High plan coverage with weak exercise results calls for different work from low plan coverage. Falling overdue-action counts may be encouraging, but check whether closure evidence supports the change. Coverage and activity figures alone do not prove financial return or performance in a real disruption.
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## Review your program assessment with BCMMetrics
If your next step is assessing the program and documenting gaps, [Compliance Confidence](https://bcmmetrics.com/business-continuity-solutions/compliance-confidence) provides a guided assessment with reporting and action assignment. Check its assessment workflow against the evidence and decisions your team needs. The examples above are not a claim that the product calculates all twelve measures automatically.
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## "Business resilience means adapting swiftly, turning challenges into stepping stones for success."
Michael Herrera
---
#### Michael Herrera
Michael Herrera is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of MHA. In his role, Michael provides global leadership to the entire set of industry practices and horizontal capabilities within MHA. Under his leadership, MHA has become a leading provider of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery services to organizations on a global level. He is also the founder of BCMMETRICS, a leading cloud based tool designed to assess business continuity compliance and residual risk. Michael is a well-known and sought after speaker on Business Continuity issues at local and national contingency planner chapter meetings and conferences. Prior to founding MHA, he was a Regional VP for Bank of America, where he was responsible for Business Continuity across the southwest region.
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