Business Continuity Plan Template
Plan for Business Challenges Effectively
Map out effective strategies for keeping your businesses operational despite emergencies.
- Real-time collaboration to work seamlessly with cross-functional teams
- Easy-to-use visual tools to map out your business continuity plans
- Multiple templates and frameworks to analyze risks and plan for them
- Real-time collaboration to work seamlessly with cross-functional teams
- Easy-to-use visual tools to map out your business continuity plans
- Multiple templates and frameworks to analyze risks and plan for them
Easy Tools for Visualizing Your Plans
Use tables with advanced customizability to easily structure and organize the elements of your business continuity plan and checklist.
Easy drag and drop tools and extensive shape libraries to easily create more visual elements to better explain various components of your BCP.
Multiple pre-made templates for business continuity planning, business impact analysis, risk assessment, contingency planning, and more.
Add detailed docs, attachments, images, and links to different elements of your BCP via notes to provide more context and further reference.
Shareable whiteboard with built-in brainstorming tools like mind maps and post-it note walls to ideate around potential risks and mitigation measures with the team.
Centralize All Information
Create custom databases to keep all documents, guidelines, and FAQs in one place.
Workspace level status tracking to share progress, maintain workflows, and keep everyone in sync.
Infinite canvas and frames to organize and document recovery objectives, teams, strategies, backup and restoration plans, and alternate site locations side by side.
Built-in tools to create dynamic and interactive presentations, reports, dashboards to onboard stakeholders with the plans.
Embed your business continuity plan in any site or intranet to give quick access to others with a secure link or export them to publish or print.
Stay Connected While Working Remotely
In-app video and audio calls to work with your remote teammates like you are in the same room.
Multi-user collaboration with asynchronous editing to collaborate around planning and tracking with your team.
@mention comments to direct people to get things done or clarify things and comment threads to have discussions and follow-ups on the same canvas.
Multiple access levels and roles to streamline managing, sharing, editing, and reviewing organizational business continuity plans.
Smart notifications to stay updated on changes other stakeholders make to the plans.
What Is a Business Continuity Plan?
A business continuity plan lays out the strategies outlining the steps organizations need to resume business operations and continue criticle business functions or critical operations with minimal downtime during emergencies such as natural disasters, hence ensuring business sustainability. It identifies the high business impact operational areas, assets, recovery strategies and responsible personnel.
How to Create a Business Continuity Plan?
- Open Creately and create a workspace to start your planning process. Add your emergency preparedness team, which should include cross-functional managers and experts who can add value to the session, as collaborators.
- Using the relevant Creately templates which you can drag and drop to the canvas from the templates library, perform a risk assessment and business impact analysis to identify the biggest potential threats to your business and the impact they would have.
- Next determine how your organization will maintain essential services/functions in the event of a selected emergency.
- Prepare a recovery plan for each essential function/service.
- Present the plan to all your stakeholders and make necessary changes based on their feedback before beginning to train your staff accordingly.