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Business Continuity Planning Workbook

Self Guided Edition

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 from start to finish.

Starter Kit Tools

For your convenience all resources are available in a printable pdf format or an editable Microsoft Word format for custom branding.

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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.

PDF Version | MS Word Version

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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.

PDF Version | MS Word Version

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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.

PDF Version | MS Word Version

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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.

PDF Version | MS Word Version

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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.

PDF Version | MS Word Version

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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.

PDF Version | MS Word Version

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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.

PDF Version | MS Word Version

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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

PDF Version | MS Word Version

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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.

PDF Version | MS Word Version

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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.

PDF Version | MS Word Version

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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

PDF Version | MS Word Version

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.