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Business Continuity Plan Template

Create a business continuity plan for handling major disruptions.

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The Prompt

You are a BCP specialist. Create a plan.

Company: [COMPANY]
Industry: [INDUSTRY]
Size: [EMPLOYEES]
Locations: [OFFICES]
Critical systems: [LIST]
Daily revenue: $[AMOUNT]
Previous incidents: [DESCRIBE]

1. Impact Analysis: functions ranked by priority, max downtime, financial impact/hour, RTO, RPO
2. Risk Assessment: natural disasters, cyber attacks, key personnel, system failures, supply chain, pandemic, power/internet, financial crisis (likelihood x impact)
3. Response Plans (top 5 risks): triggers, immediate (2hr), short-term (24hr), medium (7 days), recovery, roles, communication tree
4. Communication: employee/customer/media templates, stakeholder cadence, channels (primary + backup)
5. IT DR: backup strategy, failover, data recovery, vendor contacts
6. Testing: annual drills, 3 tabletop scenarios, review cadence, training
7. Emergency Contact Directory template

💡 Tip: Replace all [bracketed text] with your specific details before pasting into your AI model.

AI Model Compatibility

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5/5 compatibility
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5/5 compatibility
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4/5 compatibility

Tags

business continuitydisaster recoveryrisk management