Business Continuity Plan

A business continuity plan fails in one of two ways: it is too thin to be useful in an actual disruption, or so exhaustive that nobody has read past page four. The plans that work are short, owned by named people, and tested often enough that the phone tree is still current.

This section is mostly templates and worked examples, because that is what people need on the morning they are told to produce one: continuity strategy and policy templates, a Word BCP built for a small business, a full plan example for a dental practice, and a supply chain continuity plan. There is also a business impact analysis estimator, a plan checklist, and a straight answer on how disaster recovery planning differs from continuity planning.

For the wider program, including governance, exercising and maturity, start at business continuity management, then look at incident management and risk assessment.