Severe weather, power failure, and network outages are common business disruptions that generally have minimal impact on organizations. But larger events such as cyberattacks, natural disasters, terrorism, and most recently a global pandemic can have long lasting and potentially devastating effects on business operations and the personal lives of employees and their immediate families. Business architecture is uniquely positioned to provide an enterprise-wide blueprint as well as business related interactions and information critical to the development, testing, and implementation of a successful business continuity plan.
This white paper by co-authors Gary Wright and Whynde Kuehn explores how organizations can find opportunity in crisis and leverage the discipline of business architecture to provide context for, inform and accelerate decision-making when creating and evaluating business continuity plans.