A Plan Is Just Paper: Wargaming Business Continuity with Continuity Through Planning
Oct 15
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 to a legacy industry
05:17 Getting buy-in from decision makers
08:05 Where game design starts
10:07 Introducing ideas without making leaders defensive
12:22 Leading a crisis team through COVID
17:16 Stress and safe environments in a crisis
21:46 Why simply running the plan exposes gaps
24:14 Cyber, supply chains and fast-moving AI
26:32 Testing new ideas
32:36 Box-ticking training vs in-person
34:55 Advice for founders disrupting a legacy industry
36:27 What will still matter in a decade
40:30 Close
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