Business Continuity Plan

Develop a business continuity plan (BCP) for [Company Name] in [Industry]. Include: 1) Business impact analysis — identify critical business functions, map dependencies (systems, people, vendors, facilities), determine maximum tolerable downtime (MTD) and recovery time objectives (RTO) for each function. 2) Risk assessment — natural disasters, cyber attacks, pandemic, key person risk, supply chain disruption, power/internet outage. Score likelihood × impact. 3) Continuity strategies — for each critical function, define primary and backup strategies (alternate site, remote work, manual workarounds, vendor backup). 4) Communication plan — incident notification tree, employee communication channels, customer communication templates, media response protocol. 5) Technology recovery — data backup and recovery procedures, critical system prioritization, DR site activation, cloud failover. 6) Team structure — crisis management team roles, incident commander, functional leads, backup personnel for every critical role. 7) Testing program — tabletop exercises quarterly, functional tests semi-annually, full simulation annually. 8) Plan maintenance — review triggers, annual update process, lessons learned integration.