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Will AI replace Business Continuity Planners?
Some of your tasks will be automated. People who use AI will have the edge.
Task exposure to today's AI
Moderate exposure
This is the occupation's typical task mix. Your own score can be up to 30 points higher or lower depending on how you work: routine share, people contact, judgment and how much you already use AI.
Get your personal scoreWill AI replace Business Continuity Planners?
Not entirely. Today's AI tools can take on about 49% of the typical work in this occupation, mostly: write reports to summarize testing activities, including descriptions of goals, planning, scheduling, execution, results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations. The parts that stay human include: Test documented disaster recovery strategies and plans.; Analyze impact on, and risk to, essential business functions or information systems to identify acceptable recovery time periods and resource requirements.; Develop emergency management plans for recovery decision making and communications, continuity of critical departmental processes, or temporary shut-down of non-critical departments to ensure continuity of operation and governance..
People who learn to use AI for the automatable parts keep the edge. The 3-phase plan below shows where to start.
Which tasks AI can take on
The largest tasks in this occupation, their share of the working week, and how much of each today's AI tools can do.
+ 15 more tasks (50% of the week) in the full test.
Your human edge
- Test documented disaster recovery strategies and plans.
- Analyze impact on, and risk to, essential business functions or information systems to identify acceptable recovery time periods and resource requirements.
- Develop emergency management plans for recovery decision making and communications, continuity of critical departmental processes, or temporary shut-down of non-critical departments to ensure continuity of operation and governance.
AI tools to try
Excel / Sheets with Copilot or GeminiChatGPT / Claude for analysis and draftingAI document extraction (invoices, contracts, forms)Related roles
- Emergency Management Directors
- Project Management Specialists
- Information Technology Project Managers
A 3-phase AI learning plan
Phase 1
Automate the routine
- AI for data entry, extraction and reconciliation.
- Formulas, pivot tables and checks written with AI.
- Standard emails and documents from templates.
Project
Use AI to extract RTO, RPO and dependency fields from 20 existing business impact analysis questionnaires into one spreadsheet with AI-written validation checks, and log hours saved versus manual entry.Phase 2
Analysis and advice
- Forecasts and variance analysis with AI, checked against the source.
- Plain-language summaries of numbers for managers or clients.
- Research rules and regulations with AI, then verify in the original.
Project
Have AI draft a plain-language risk and recovery-gap summary of one department's continuity plan against the current regulatory standard, then verify every citation in the original text.Phase 3
Process owner
- Map and automate a full process with no-code tools (Make, Zapier, Power Automate).
- Data quality, controls and audit trails for AI-assisted work.
- Turn saved time into higher-value advisory work.
Project
Map and automate the tabletop exercise cycle in Power Automate or Zapier, auto-sending scenario invites, tracking findings and logging an audit trail, and measure turnaround before and after.