Create a Business Continuity Plan

Create a business continuity plan for the following business:

Business name: [name]
Business type: [describe what you do]
Team size: [number of people]
Key dependencies: [critical software, suppliers, locations, or people the business relies on]
Previous disruptions experienced: [anything that has gone wrong before]
Biggest vulnerability: [what would hurt most if it failed]
Remote work capability: [full / partial / none]
Data backup status: [daily / weekly / none / cloud]
Insurance coverage: [describe relevant policies]

The plan should cover:

1. RISK ASSESSMENT
- Top 10 disruption scenarios ranked by likelihood × impact
- (e.g. key person illness, cyber attack, data loss, supplier failure, office unavailability, platform outage)

2. FOR EACH TOP 5 RISK:
- Trigger point (how do we know this is happening)
- Immediate response (first 2 hours)
- Short-term workaround (first 2 weeks)
- Recovery plan (return to normal)
- Owner responsible

3. CRITICAL FUNCTIONS LIST
- Which business functions must continue no matter what (ranked)
- Minimum viable team to keep each running

4. COMMUNICATION PLAN
- Who to notify and in what order (staff, customers, suppliers, insurers)
- Message templates for each stakeholder group

5. DATA AND SYSTEMS BACKUP
- Current state assessment
- Recommended improvements
- Recovery time objective for each critical system

6. KEY CONTACTS SHEET
- Template for emergency contacts (IT support, insurers, key suppliers, legal)

7. PLAN MAINTENANCE
- How often to review and test
- Responsibility for keeping it current