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.