A systematic organizational practice for identifying potential threats to an operation and building capabilities — documented procedures, resource inventories, and recovery protocols — to ensure that critical functions continue during and after a disruption. It carves a bounded set of artifacts (plans, teams, drills, and resource registries) coordinated around business impact analysis. A competent speaker would call it a planning practice. [formal: business-continuity-planning | substrate: behavior | horizon: a life | explicit: yes | epoch: 0.01]
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business continuity planning
A systematic organizational practice for identifying potential threats to an operation and building capabilities — documented procedures, resource inventories, and recovery protocols — to ensure that critical functions continue during and…
Definition
Why it is in scope
A human-made organizational practice: the process of creating systems and procedures to ensure an organization can continue operating during and after a disruption or disaster.
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- business continuity planningen · CANONICAL
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Business continuity planning IS a specific kind of risk management practice — it prepares organizations to maintain essential functions during and after a disruption. Per Law 9, specific→general: a competent speaker would call BCP 'a risk management practice.' Direction tested: risk management (broad discipline) is older and broader than business continuity planning (specific practice within that discipline).
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Business continuity planning exists to manage organizational risks — ensuring critical functions continue during and after disruptions. Its purpose is risk mitigation and resilience.
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- Aug 2, 2026, 2:46 PM UTC
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