---
type: "term"
title: "Business Impact (BI)"
description: "A role assigned to the terminal Business Risk Event in a consequence chain — the BRE beyond which further causal decomposition is no longer operationally useful for a given organization."
resource: "tlctc:term:business-impact-bi"
tags:
  - "glossary"
---
# Business Impact (BI)

A **role** assigned to the terminal Business Risk Event in a consequence chain — the BRE beyond which further causal decomposition is no longer operationally useful for a given organization. BI is not a separate event category; it is the point in the BRE chain where an organization's **Risk Appetite** boundary is reached. What constitutes BI for one organization may be a mid-chain BRE for another: a €50K regulatory fine may be terminal impact for a startup but a mid-chain event for a multinational. The BI designation is therefore context-dependent and organization-specific.

**Reference:** §6.3.1 (The Consequence Chain)

See also: Business Risk Event (BRE), Risk Appetite, Event Chain