Business Function

1. Business Function is a description of work that is performed to accomplish a business unit's responsibility. BL-B-5 Click to know more Related Term: Critical Business Function BCM Institute's Professional Training and Certification BCMBoK Competency Level BCMBoK 3: Business Impact Analysis CL 2B: Intermediate (BC) BCMBoK Competency Level BCMBoK 3: Business Impact Analysis CL 2C: Intermediate (CM) BCMBoK Competency Level BCMBoK 3: Business Impact Analysis CL 2D: Intermediate (DR) Click to know more about expert level training (Source: Business Continuity Management Institute - BCM Institute)

2. A description of work that is performed to accomplish one or several business unit's responsibility. Examples of business function includes delivering raw materials, paying bills, receiving of cash and inventories.

Conducting Your Impact Analysis for Business Continuity Planning (Second Edition)

(Source: SS540 Singapore Standard on Business Continuity Management - SS 540:2008)

3. A business unit within an organization e.g. branch/division.

(Source: Business Continuity Institute - BCI)

4. A business unit within an organization,e.g.,a department,division,branch.

(Source: OGC, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) v3)

5. A business function is defined as any set of activities performed by the department that is initiated by an event, transform information, materials or business commitments, and procedures an output (e.g. order fulfillment, invoicing, cash management, manufactured batch, customer response tracking, regulatory submissions, etc).

(Source: Malaysia BCM Standard MS1970:2007)