Business Continuity Plan (BCP) Templates

We don’t choose when our businesses are impacted by disasters, man-made or natural. We can work together to identify these risks and formulate & test plans to quickly resolve them ahead of time. The process of this planning is valuable itself, but when you’re confronted with a challenge, having a clear list of checks, decisions and actions to take can make a world of difference for your teams. Digitising these mobile-accessible plans in the cloud ensures they’re available even when your systems go down.

An ideal BCP is going to communicate the scope & key risk it’s mitigating against, identify the affected processes, functions and dependencies in your business, and articulate the steps to implement the alternative plan quickly and effectively. Summarising the detailed plan into a concise and shared checklist which identifies the key steps, in order and with their responsible parties identified allows your team to come together to solve the problem quickly. You might also use checks to audit your team’s understanding of the plan and perform training and drills.

Depending on the size of the business, it could be your core leadership team, or it could involve bringing together domain-experts from across the organisation in a Business Continuity committee to develop and communicate the plan to the members responsible for executing it.