Business Continuity Planning: Why Most Organizations Are Less Prepared Than They Think
Ask most business leaders whether they have a continuity plan and the answer is yes. Ask them when it was last tested and the answer usually becomes uncomfortable. A business continuity plan sitting in a shared folder — last updated eighteen months ago, never stress-tested, and known only to the three people who wrote it — is not a continuity plan. It is a document. And in the middle of a real disruption, the difference between the two is the difference between a coordinated response and organizational chaos. Genuine business continuity preparedness is rarer than most organizations admit. And the cost of that gap becomes visible only when something goes wrong — which, for most businesses operating in today's interconnected digital environment, is a matter of when rather than if. What Disruption Actually Looks Like in Practice The mental image most leaders hold of a business disruption is dramatic — a flood, a fire, a major cyberattack. In reality, the disruptions that most organiz...