Grounding continuity in ERM ensures your program is coordinated, business-aligned, and proactive rather than reactive, empowering teams to respond efficiently to disruptions while protecting the organization’s operations, finances, and reputation.

A resilient business continuity program starts with enterprise-wide risk governance. LogicManager’s Risk Maturity Model (RMM) helps formalize ownership, clarify escalation paths, and ensure continuity planning aligns with your organization’s risk appetite and strategic objectives. 

By embedding your BCM efforts within ERM, you prioritize responses to the most critical threats, engage stakeholders across departments, and maintain clear accountability. This foundation creates a Risk Ripple effect: decisions in one area influence preparedness across your entire organization, from IT systems to operational processes.

Prioritization is essential to continuity planning. LogicManager centralizes your inventory of business processes, critical systems, vendors, and personnel, giving you a single source of truth for operational dependencies. 

This step drives engagement by clearly assigning responsibility for each resource and process, fostering accountability, and clarifying risk ownership. With a complete picture of what’s at stake, teams can prioritize planning efforts efficiently, ensuring limited resources are focused where they’ll have the greatest impact. 

Mapping your critical resources and processes also provides actionable insights for cross-functional planning and risk mitigation. By building this foundation, your continuity program becomes a connected, risk-aware system that strengthens the organization’s resilience through informed decisions and prioritized action.

The BIA translates risks into tangible business consequences, quantifying operational, financial, and reputational impacts of potential disruptions. Using LogicManager, you can prioritize processes and teams by their criticality, while defining recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs) to guide planning. 

This step engages stakeholders by linking real-world consequences to actionable planning decisions, ensuring resources are focused where interruptions would be most damaging. 

The insights gathered inform every aspect of your continuity program, from mitigation strategies to communication protocols, and create a ripple effect across the enterprise. By understanding the impacts of potential disruptions, you equip your organization to respond quickly, recover efficiently, and protect critical operations and reputation.

With prioritized processes and critical resources identified, LogicManager enables the creation of scenario-specific response plans and playbooks. Assign clear roles, define backup workflows, identify required resources, and establish communication protocols—all linked directly to the processes they protect. 

This structure ensures engagement by empowering teams with clarity on responsibilities and expectations, while creating actionable guidance that is easy to execute under pressure. 

Centralizing playbooks in LogicManager provides a holistic view of your continuity program and strengthens your Risk Ripple: each process-specific plan reinforces organizational readiness. This step transforms planning into operational resilience, ensuring that teams can respond cohesively and effectively to disruptions of any scale.

Testing is critical to turning plans into performance. LogicManager supports tabletop exercises, simulations, and drills that evaluate recovery plans under realistic conditions. These exercises reveal gaps, validate team roles, and clarify communication and escalation protocols, fostering engagement and accountability across all participants.

Insights from each test feed back into the system, improving plans and reinforcing the Risk Ripple effect across related processes and teams. Conducting regular exercises ensures your continuity program isn’t static—it evolves with your organization, adapting to operational changes and emerging risks. By actively testing and refining plans, your teams gain confidence and readiness, ensuring they can execute efficiently when disruption strikes.