What Is Business Continuity?
Business Continuity is the planning and capabilities that let an organisation maintain or quickly restore critical functions after a disruption, including one caused by AI system failure or unavailability.
Business Continuity — the planning and capabilities that let an organisation maintain or quickly restore critical functions after a disruption, including one caused by AI system failure or unavailability.
Business continuity is the practical complement to operational resilience: documented plans, fallbacks, and recovery procedures for when something breaks. For AI, that means having a way to keep operating if a model degrades, a provider goes down, or an output cannot be trusted — for example a manual process or a simpler backup model. ISO 22301 is the recognised standard for business continuity management.
Source: ISO 22301; business continuity management practice
Plain-language explanation
Business continuity is the practical complement to operational resilience: documented plans, fallbacks, and recovery procedures for when something breaks. For AI, that means having a way to keep operating if a model degrades, a provider goes down, or an output cannot be trusted — for example a manual process or a simpler backup model. ISO 22301 is the recognised standard for business continuity management.
Related terms
See where you stand on AI governance
Take the free 7-question maturity assessment and get a personalised action plan.
Free assessment — 3 minutes →