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Continuity planning
Keep delivering even when something fails
Continuity planning is about maintaining your most critical deliveries during disruption – IT outages, supplier failure, loss of personnel or external events.
We work from critical functions and tolerable downtime to concrete fallback routines, then test the plan in an exercise.
When is it needed?
- When you have deliveries that cannot stop
- On requirements from customers, owners or supervision
- After an incident that exposed weaknesses
- When you depend on single systems, people or suppliers
- As part of civil preparedness work
How it works
- 01
Critical functions
We identify what must work and how long an outage can be tolerated.
- 02
Impact analysis
We map dependencies in systems, personnel, premises and suppliers.
- 03
Fallbacks
We define ways of working when the normal solution is unavailable.
- 04
Exercise
We test the plan and adjust based on what the exercise reveals.
A plan is not a capability
Most organisations have documents. Fewer have tested them. Exercises decide whether the plan holds under pressure.
We design exercises to match maturity – from tabletop to alerted management exercise.
Link to crisis management
Continuity must connect to the crisis organisation: who decides, how alerts are raised, how you communicate.
We build simple alerting and decision routines that work without the usual systems.
What you get
- A list of critical functions and tolerable downtime
- Dependency and impact analysis
- Fallback routines and a restart plan
- Alerting and decision structure for crises
- A completed exercise with documented lessons
Part of Preparedness
Continuity planning is part of our preparedness work alongside crisis management and civil preparedness.
Frequently asked questions
- How is it different from a crisis plan?
- The crisis plan describes how you lead an event. The continuity plan describes how the organisation keeps delivering meanwhile.
- How often should we exercise?
- At least annually, and always after major changes or a real incident.
Want to test your continuity capability?
We will propose an approach that fits your size and risk exposure.