Will AI Replace Business Continuity Planners?

Develop emergency management plans for recovery decision making and communications, continuity of critical departmental processes, or temporary shut-down of non-critical departments to ensure continuity of operation and governance.

text generation — Plans drafted; accountability and tailoring human

Test documented disaster recovery strategies and plans.

text generation — Response plans drafted; compliance review human

Develop disaster recovery plans for physical locations with critical assets, such as data centers.

text generation — Plans drafted; accountability and tailoring human

Establish, maintain, or test call trees to ensure appropriate communication during disaster.

text generation — Response plans drafted; compliance review human

Identify opportunities for strategic improvement or mitigation of business interruption and other risks caused by business, regulatory, or industry-specific change initiatives.

decision support — Strategic investment judgment needs human ownership

Maintain and update organization information technology applications and network systems blueprints.

data analysis — Enter and maintain data in information systems

Review existing disaster recovery, crisis management, or business continuity plans.

text generation — Plans drafted; accountability and tailoring human

Analyze impact on, and risk to, essential business functions or information systems to identify acceptable recovery time periods and resource requirements.

decision support — Risk assessment needs organizational context and judgment

Write reports to summarize testing activities, including descriptions of goals, planning, scheduling, execution, results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations.

text generation — Research reports drafted; human owns findings

Create or administer training and awareness presentations or materials.

text generation — Draft training materials; human tailors content

Design or implement products and services to mitigate risk or facilitate use of technology-based tools and methods.

decision support — AI drafts system specs; business context human

Recommend or implement methods to monitor, evaluate, or enable resolution of safety, operations, or compliance interruptions.

data analysis — Explains techniques well; application needs human

Conduct or oversee contingency plan integration and operation.

text generation — Plans drafted; accountability and tailoring human

Create business continuity and disaster recovery budgets.

data analysis — Budgetary/accounting analysis is routine quantitative work

Create scenarios to reestablish operations from various types of business disruptions.

data analysis — Builds and runs models; human validates assumptions

Interpret government regulations and applicable codes to ensure compliance.

information retrieval — Law-to-activity mapping; human owns compliance

Prepare reports summarizing operational results, financial performance, or accomplishments of specified objectives, goals, or plans.

text generation — Generate operational reports from structured data

Analyze corporate intelligence data to identify trends, patterns, or warnings indicating threats to security of people, assets, information, or infrastructure.

data analysis — Analyzes structured financial data with tools

Attend professional meetings, read literature, and participate in training or other educational offerings to keep abreast of new developments and technologies related to disaster recovery and business continuity.

information retrieval — AI surfaces updates; human internalizes knowledge

Conduct or oversee collection of corporate intelligence to avoid fraud, financial crime, cyber attack, terrorism, and infrastructure failure.

data analysis — Gather performance info, human validates sources

Identify individual or transaction targets to direct intelligence collection.

information retrieval — Legal research strong, judgment and accountability human