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A Plan Is Just Paper: Wargaming Business Continuity with Continuity Through Planning
Paul Mitchell and Kyle Cruickshank of Continuity Through Planning join Nathan Reardon to explain why a business continuity plan rarely survives the first hour of a real disaster unless it has been practised. Drawing on Paul's experience leading the AA's crisis management team through COVID, they show how game-based exercises build muscle memory and let teams fail safely. Their message: box-checking only offers the illusion of resilience.
Chapters
00:00 Intro: the 200-page plan
01:02 Is "we wrote the plan" the assumption to tear up?
01:37 A plan you never practised
02:53 Bringing radical ideas…
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