Business Continuity Planning Workbook
Self Guided Edition
The Business Continuity Planning Workbook — Self-Guided Edition
Starter Kit Tools
For your convenience all resources are available in a printable pdf format or an editable Microsoft Word format for custom branding.
Critical Functions & Business Impact Analysis Tool
Identify the business activities that matter most, understand what happens if they stop, determine how long the business can tolerate the interruption, and set realistic recovery priorities.
Critical Dependencies & Single Points of Failure Tool
Identify what each critical function depends on, uncover dependencies that could interrupt operations, challenge assumptions in your continuity planning, and identify single points of failure that require priority action.
Continuity Strategy Planner
Turn priority vulnerabilities into practical continuity arrangements that can keep a critical activity operating, allow it to operate temporarily at a reduced level, restore it within the required timeframe, or provide an alternative until normal operations return.
Roles, Authority, Succession & Plan Activation Tool
Clarify who owns the Business Continuity Plan, who can activate or deactivate it, who has authority to make critical decisions, who takes over if key leaders are unavailable, and who is responsible for each continuity function.
Business Continuity Communications Pack
Plan how your business will communicate with employees, customers, suppliers, partners, banks or insurers, regulators and the public during disruption and recovery. Use it to decide what each audience needs to know.
Business Continuity Plan Template
Bring together the principal decisions and arrangements developed through your Business Continuity Planning process into one practical plan that your business can approve, access, activate, maintain and test.
Business Continuity Quick Reference & Initial Activation Checklist
Use this checklist when the Business Continuity Plan or selected continuity arrangements are activated, Adapt the sequence to the disruption and record the person responsible, completion time and any required follow-up.
Business Continuity Testing, Exercise & Lessons Identified Tool
Select the right type of Business Continuity test; build a proportionate testing programme; plan and conduct functional tests, tabletop exercises or controlled simulations; capture evidence; identify Lessons Identified
30/60/90-Day Business Continuity Action Plan
Turn the most important gaps in your Business Continuity arrangements into specific actions with clear owners, realistic timeframes, target dates, status and evidence of completion.
Business Continuity Event & Decision Log Pack
Create a clear, time-stamped record of what happened during a disruption, which decisions were made, who authorized them, what actions remain outstanding and what emergency costs or commitments were incurred.
Supplier & Critical Resource Continuity Register
Maintain the operational details needed to protect critical supplies, services and resources; confirm whether alternatives are genuinely available and independent; set switching triggers; and keep supplier, logistics
Business Resources & Tools
The Business Continuity Planning Workbook: Self-Guided Edition
A complete, structured planning pathway that enables businesses to independently work through the Business Continuity Planning process.
Business Resources & Tools
The Business Continuity Planning Workbook: Self-Guided Edition
A complete, structured planning pathway that enables businesses to independently work through the Business Continuity Planning process.
Resources
Starter Kit Tools
These resources are available in a printable PDF format or an editable Microsoft Word format for use in building you plan.
Critical Functions & Business Impact Analysis Tool
Identify the business activities that matter most, understand what happens if they stop, determine how long the business can tolerate the interruption, and set realistic recovery priorities.
…Download Version

Critical Functions & Business Impact Analysis Tool
Identify the business activities that matter most, understand what happens if they stop, determine how long the business can tolerate the interruption, and set realistic recovery priorities.
Critical Dependencies & Single Points of Failure Tool
Identify what each critical function depends on, uncover dependencies that could interrupt operations, challenge assumptions in your continuity planning, and identify single points of failure that require priority action.
…Download Version

Critical Dependencies & Single Points of Failure Tool
Identify what each critical function depends on, uncover dependencies that could interrupt operations, challenge assumptions in your continuity planning, and identify single points of failure that require priority action.
Continuity Strategy Planner
Turn priority vulnerabilities into practical continuity arrangements that can keep a critical activity operating, allow it to operate temporarily at a reduced level, restore it within the required timeframe, or provide an alternative until normal operations return.
…Download Version

Continuity Strategy Planner
Turn priority vulnerabilities into practical continuity arrangements that can keep a critical activity operating, allow it to operate temporarily at a reduced level, restore it within the required timeframe, or provide an alternative until normal operations return.
Roles, Authority, Succession & Plan Activation Tool
Clarify who owns the Business Continuity Plan, who can activate or deactivate it, who has authority to make critical decisions, who takes over if key leaders are unavailable, and who is responsible for each continuity function.
…Download Version

Roles, Authority, Succession & Plan Activation Tool
Clarify who owns the Business Continuity Plan, who can activate or deactivate it, who has authority to make critical decisions, who takes over if key leaders are unavailable, and who is responsible for each continuity function.
Business Continuity Communications Pack
Plan how your business will communicate with employees, customers, suppliers, partners, banks or insurers, regulators and the public during disruption and recovery. Use it to decide what each audience needs to know.
…Download Version

Business Continuity Communications Pack
Plan how your business will communicate with employees, customers, suppliers, partners, banks or insurers, regulators and the public during disruption and recovery. Use it to decide what each audience needs to know.
Business Continuity Plan Template
Bring together the principal decisions and arrangements developed through your Business Continuity Planning process into one practical plan that your business can approve, access, activate, maintain and test.
…Download Version

Business Continuity Plan Template
Bring together the principal decisions and arrangements developed through your Business Continuity Planning process into one practical plan that your business can approve, access, activate, maintain and test.
Business Continuity Quick Reference & Initial Activation Checklist
Use this checklist when the Business Continuity Plan or selected continuity arrangements are activated. Adapt the sequence to the disruption and record the person responsible, completion time and any required follow-up.
…Download Version

Business Continuity Quick Reference & Initial Activation Checklist
Use this checklist when the Business Continuity Plan or selected continuity arrangements are activated. Adapt the sequence to the disruption and record the person responsible, completion time and any required follow-up.
Business Continuity Testing, Exercise & Lessons Identified Tool
Select the right type of Business Continuity test; build a proportionate testing programme; plan and conduct functional tests, tabletop exercises or controlled simulations; capture evidence; identify Lessons Identified.
…Download Version

Business Continuity Testing, Exercise & Lessons Identified Tool
Select the right type of Business Continuity test; build a proportionate testing programme; plan and conduct functional tests, tabletop exercises or controlled simulations; capture evidence; identify Lessons Identified.
30/60/90-Day Business Continuity Action Plan
Turn the most important gaps in your Business Continuity arrangements into specific actions with clear owners, realistic timeframes, target dates, status and evidence of completion.
…Download Version

30/60/90-Day Business Continuity Action Plan
Turn the most important gaps in your Business Continuity arrangements into specific actions with clear owners, realistic timeframes, target dates, status and evidence of completion.
Business Continuity Event & Decision Log Pack
Create a clear, time-stamped record of what happened during a disruption, which decisions were made, who authorised them, what actions remain outstanding and what emergency costs or commitments were incurred.
…Download Version

Business Continuity Event & Decision Log Pack
Create a clear, time-stamped record of what happened during a disruption, which decisions were made, who authorised them, what actions remain outstanding and what emergency costs or commitments were incurred.
Supplier & Critical Resource Continuity Register
Maintain the operational details needed to protect critical supplies, services and resources; confirm whether alternatives are genuinely available and independent; set switching triggers; and keep supplier, logistics.
…Download Version

Supplier & Critical Resource Continuity Register
Maintain the operational details needed to protect critical supplies, services and resources; confirm whether alternatives are genuinely available and independent; set switching triggers; and keep supplier, logistics.