In a response structure, teams operate at different levels to ensure fast operational action and effective executive decision-making. The strategic team (often the crisis management level) focuses on the organization-wide, high-impact decisions: protecting viability, reputation, governance obligations, and stakeholder confidence, and ensuring decisions align with organizational objectives under crisis conditions. This matches option A.

Option B describes the operational focus (containment, immediate consequence management) typically handled by incident/operational responders. Option D (information consolidation) is more aligned to tactical coordination and situational reporting between operational and strategic levels. Option C describes plan development work rather than the real-time strategic decision-making role during an incident.

BCI guidance emphasises that a response structure should be capable of dealing with many types of disruption and should include appropriate roles/teams so information is communicated quickly and accurately and decision-making is properly coordinated across levels. The strategic team’s defining concern is enterprise survival and integrity, which is why A is correct.