Business continuity and disaster recovery¶
Continuity is one of those subjects every organisation claims to have until the building floods and SharePoint becomes theology. The plan exists. The plan is current. The plan has been signed off. And it could be that none of these statements survive contact with a fire, a ransomware event, a depot strike, or the quiet news that the third party that owns half an organisation’s dependency graph has filed for administration.
Exploring the possible gap between a plan and an organisation that enacts it. Such a gap is adversarial systems thinking applied inwards: what breaks first, what cannot fail, what humans will improvise around, how technical failure walks slowly toward governance failure if nobody is watching the corridor, and what happens on the Monday morning after the event when the technology is back and the organisation is not.
Continuity as an honest account of how an organisation can break and return:
Last updated: 2 July 2026