Business Continuity Planning needs to be More Dynamic

When people usually think about a Business Continuity Plan, they think of a large word document that no one in the business area has reviewed for a long time or wouldn’t know where to find their copy.

If you suffer a cyber-attack, if there is an active shooter in your building, if the water supply fails in your office, your BC plan will provide guidance only if you can’t get access into your building. This sounds good news, but it takes too long in practice, and it is also detailed.

If this pandemic will teach us, professionals, anything is that we need to move away from these large, unwieldy plans and move to a more strategic PlayBook design.

A PlayBook is practical advice delivered in short form to cover a specific incident. All companies would need to complete Risk Assessments to identify which playbooks would be required. Most would require a Cyber Attack, a Protest, a Terror attack, and a building loss.

It’s time to be more proactive and less reactive.