CBCLA case studies
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The Certified Business Continuity Lead Auditor (CBCLA) is a professional certification DRI International awards to audit team leaders. Its requirements reflect significant audit experience plus a broad understanding of emergency management, enterprise risk management and business continuity, and DRI names as strong candidates those who have been responsible for planning, scheduling and implementing an audit program. The CBCLA case studies are 5 cases and about 2,575 words.
1Claims Platform Tiering Under Conflicting RTOs
Northbridge Health Insurance processes 42,000 claims per day through a core adjudication platform that also feeds the member portal, pharmacy benefit checks, and regulatory reporting. The BIA sponsor is the VP of Claims, who insists the platform is Tier 1 with an RTO of four hours.
560 words, about 3 min2Heat-Treatment Single Point of Failure Strategy
Arctic Precision Components operates one machining plant in Ohio that supplies brake calipers to three automotive OEMs under contracts with 250,000 per day in late-delivery penalties. The plant runs two shifts and produces 18,000 units per day.
503 words, about 3 min3Fragmented Plan and Regulatory Approval Gap
Lakeshore Financial Group has completed a BIA and selected a recovery strategy: a hybrid cloud site for its lending platform and a manual workaround for wire transfers. The business continuity plan is a 240-page document assembled from department templates.
523 words, about 3 min4Functional Exercise Versus Tabletop Under Staffing Pressure
Metro Water Authority is required by its regulator to exercise its emergency response plan annually, including a functional test of its incident management team and call tree. Last year's tabletop revealed that only 14 of 32 primary contacts answered within 30 minutes and that the operations lead had no alternate.
502 words, about 3 min5Post-Merger Maintenance and Maturity Assessment
Summit Care Network operates 11 clinics and two hospitals. After a merger, it inherited three different continuity plans, 14 vendor contracts with varying recovery commitments, and a BIA that still lists a retired electronic health record module.
487 words, about 2 min