Understand how your critical activities connect to the people, systems, suppliers and resources they rely on.
Your organisation's activities depend on interconnected resources. Some dependencies are obvious, while others may be indirect, shared or undocumented.
Every recorded Dependent → Supporting relationship, including candidates a reviewer has confirmed.
Resources relied on by three or more critical activities with a limited or untested alternative.
Proposed relationships awaiting a reviewer decision or further evidence.
Mapped relationships whose supporting evidence has not yet been verified.
Simulated demonstration. Relationships use fictional Northbridge records and transparent rules; nothing is connected to live systems.
Activity overview
Customer Order Processing
Validates incoming customer orders, allocates available stock and sends instructions to the warehouse.
Business owner
Operations Manager
Operational criticality
Critical
Supporting dependencies
9
Exposure classification
High
Evidence status
Needs review
Known alternatives
Manual order capture for four hours; downstream stock updates remain constrained.
Direct Dependencies 7
Resources immediately required to perform the activity.
Indirect Dependencies 2
Resources supporting another dependency this activity relies on.
Although the Senior Integration Engineer does not directly perform customer order processing, the organisation may depend on their specialist knowledge or authority to restore or approve something it requires.
Critical activityCustomer Order Processing
depends on
Confirmed dependencyProposed or unverifiedCritical shared resourceOutdated evidenceArrows point from the dependent to the resource it relies on
Specialist knowledge dependencies
The person and the knowledge are separate dependencies
An organisation may depend on a person's availability, but it may also depend on knowledge that has not been documented or transferred to others.
Person Concentration
Only one authorised or available employee can perform a critical recovery task.
Knowledge Concentration
Important recovery knowledge is not sufficiently documented or distributed.
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