BCM
Business Continuity Management. The management discipline for preparing, responding, recovering, and improving when disruption affects important activities.
BCM tools
Lightweight continuity tools for practical planning.
Use these browser-based BCM tools to structure recovery objective discussions, BIA preparation, plan reviews, tabletop exercise planning, and terminology checks.
RTO/RPO Explainer
Translate criticality, downtime tolerance, and data loss tolerance into a planning category.
BIA Readiness
Check whether a process is ready for a useful business impact analysis conversation.
Plan Completeness
Find missing continuity plan sections and generate focused next actions.
Exercise Planning
Confirm objectives, scenario, injects, participants, evaluation criteria, and after-action output.
BCM Glossary
Search common BCM, BIA, recovery, resilience, and incident response terms.
How to use these tools
Outputs are planning aids. They should support discussion with business owners, technology teams, suppliers, and leadership, not replace formal approval or validated recovery capability.
Recovery objectives
RTO/RPO Explainer Tool
Select basic tolerances and get a plain-language recovery objective category for planning conversations.
Result
Choose inputs to generate guidance.
The result will explain likely RTO and RPO planning expectations in simple terms.
For planning support only. Final RTO and RPO values require organizational approval and validation against actual recovery capability.
Impact analysis
BIA Readiness Checklist
Check whether the right inputs are available before running a business impact analysis interview or refresh.
Readiness
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Start by confirming ownership, dependencies, impact categories, recovery targets, and workarounds.
Continuity plan
Continuity Plan Completeness Checker
Select the sections your continuity plan already includes. The checker will show missing sections and next actions.
Completeness
0% complete
Select completed sections to identify the highest-value plan gaps.
Exercises
Exercise Planning Checklist
Draft the core structure for a tabletop exercise and check whether the session is ready to run.
Planning status
0% ready
Complete each planning field to create a usable exercise outline.
Reference
BCM Glossary
Search common continuity, recovery, resilience, and incident response terms.
BIA
Business Impact Analysis. A structured analysis of process criticality, impacts over time, dependencies, and recovery requirements.
MTPD
Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption. The longest disruption period before impacts become unacceptable.
RTO
Recovery Time Objective. The target time for restoring a process, service, system, or activity after disruption.
RPO
Recovery Point Objective. The maximum acceptable amount of data loss measured as time since the last recoverable point.
MAO
Maximum Acceptable Outage. A term often used similarly to maximum tolerable downtime for a process or service.
Crisis management
The leadership and coordination process for high-impact events requiring strategic decisions, communication, and escalation.
Operational resilience
The ability to continue important services within impact tolerances through disruption, often using BCM evidence and testing.
Incident response
The immediate actions used to detect, assess, contain, communicate, and manage an incident.
Recovery strategy
The selected approach for restoring people, facilities, technology, suppliers, data, and operations to an acceptable level.
Dependency mapping
The identification of systems, suppliers, people, sites, data, and handoffs that a process needs to operate or recover.
Critical process
A process whose disruption can cause unacceptable operational, customer, financial, legal, safety, or reputational impact.
Alternate site
A backup work location, facility, or operating arrangement used when the primary site is unavailable.
Call tree
A structured contact cascade for notifying staff, alternates, leadership, suppliers, or stakeholders during an incident.
SITREP
Situation report. A concise update covering facts, impact, actions, decisions, risks, owner, and next update time.
Corrective action
A tracked improvement assigned after an incident, exercise, audit, or review to close a continuity gap.
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Manual test checklist
Before publishing changes
- Open `/tools` on desktop and mobile widths.
- Submit the RTO/RPO explainer with strict, moderate, and relaxed tolerance combinations.
- Tick and untick BIA and plan checklist items and confirm percentages update.
- Print and download the BIA checklist and exercise brief.
- Search glossary terms including RTO, BIA, SITREP, and a term with no match.
- Confirm ads, when enabled, appear outside active form areas.