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Business Continuity Plan Readiness Assessment

Assesses how prepared an organization is to keep operating through IT outages, cyberattacks, natural disasters, and other disruptions — covering plan documentation, testing cadence, employee clarity, and priority functions. Built for risk, operations, and IT leaders benchmarking continuity maturity, with an AI follow-up that reconstructs how the plan actually performed during a recent real disruption or near-miss.

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13 questions · ~7 min
Q01
Message

Thanks for taking a few minutes to assess your organization's business continuity readiness. This covers your current plan, how well it's been tested, and where the gaps are. About 6-8 minutes.

Q02
Multiple ChoiceRequired

Does your organization currently have a documented business continuity plan?

  • Yes, fully documented and up to date
  • Yes, but outdated or incomplete
  • No, but we're developing one
  • No, not in place
  • Not sure
Q03
MatrixRequired

How prepared is your organization to maintain operations through each of the following disruptions?

6 rows × 4 columns
  • IT system outage
  • Natural disaster (fire, flood, storm)
  • Supply chain disruption
  • Cyberattack or ransomware
  • Loss of key personnel
  • +1 more
Columns: Not prepared · Somewhat prepared · Well prepared · Fully prepared
Q04
Opinion ScaleRequired

How confident are you that leadership could execute the continuity plan effectively during an actual disruption?

Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Not at all confidentMax:Extremely confident
Q05
Multiple Choice

When was your business continuity plan last tested (for example, through a tabletop exercise or live drill)?

  • Within the last 6 months
  • 6-12 months ago
  • 1-2 years ago
  • More than 2 years ago
  • Never tested
  • Not sure
Q06
Best–Worst Trade-off (MaxDiff)Required

Which of the following business functions should be prioritized for continuity protection?

  • IT systems and data
  • Customer-facing operations
  • Supply chain and vendor relationships
  • Physical facilities and equipment
  • Payroll and HR operations
  • Internal and external communications
  • Financial operations
  • Sales and revenue generation
Pick best & worst per setBest:Highest priorityWorst:Lowest priority
Q07
Rating ScaleRequired

How clear are employees on their individual roles and responsibilities during a disruption?

Range: 1 – 5
Min:Not clear at allMax:Completely clear
Q08
AI Interview

Reconstruct the most recent actual disruption or near-miss the respondent's organization experienced (IT outage, weather event, cyber incident, key staff loss, etc.): what happened, which parts of the continuity plan were activated, what worked, and what broke down or was missing entirely. If they say they've never had a real disruption, probe what worries them most about how the current plan would hold up and why.

Q09
Multiple Choice

What is the biggest barrier to improving your business continuity plan right now?

  • Budget constraints
  • Lack of time
  • Limited leadership buy-in
  • Lack of internal expertise
  • Uncertainty about where to start
Q10
Number

Approximately how many hours could your organization sustain critical operations without core systems (power, IT, communications) before significant financial or reputational harm occurs?

Q11
Multiple Choice

Which best describes your role or department?

  • Executive leadership
  • IT or security
  • Operations
  • Risk or compliance
  • Human resources
  • Other
  • Prefer not to say
Q12
Multiple Choice

How many employees does your organization have?

  • Under 50
  • 50-249
  • 250-999
  • 1,000-4,999
  • 5,000 or more
  • Prefer not to say
Q13
Message

That's everything — thank you! Your responses will feed into a readiness report highlighting where your continuity plan is solid and where it needs attention.

What’s included

  • AI follow-ups

    Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.

  • Attention checks

    Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.

  • AI-drafted copy

    Wording, ordering, and branching written by the AI — tuned to your research goal.

  • Auto report

    Themes, quotes, and a plain-English summary write themselves once responses come in.

How it compares

We reviewed the closest templates from other survey tools. Here’s what they do well — and where this template goes further.

Why this template

  • Goes beyond a static checklist with an AI follow-up interview that reconstructs how the plan actually performed during a recent real disruption or near-miss, surfacing details a form can't capture
  • Combines structured measurement (matrix on operational readiness, MaxDiff on function prioritization, rating on employee role clarity) with open-ended probing in one flow
  • Includes quantitative benchmarking questions — confidence in leadership execution, hours of sustainable operation, last test date — alongside qualitative depth
  • Ends in an auto-generated report built from transparent, reviewable prompts, so risk/ops/IT leaders can see exactly how conclusions were derived

Jotform

Business Continuity Plan Checklist Template

This is a checklist-style form template rather than an interview or maturity assessment — it's built to confirm whether continuity tasks/items exist, not to probe how plans perform in practice. Useful for quick internal audits but not designed for benchmarking or narrative reconstruction of incidents. Good starting point for teams wanting a simple, fielding-ready static form.

What it does well

  • Simple, ready-to-use checklist format that's fast to deploy
  • Familiar Jotform builder with drag-and-drop customization and integrations
  • Free to start, low setup effort for basic compliance tracking

Where it falls short

  • Static checklist with no adaptive follow-up — can't dig into why a plan failed or how a real disruption unfolded
  • No automated quality scoring of open responses or maturity benchmarking logic
  • No transparent methodology or generated readiness report tied to responses

SurveySparrow

Business Continuity Plan Template

A conversational-style survey template covering business continuity topics, fielding-ready within SurveySparrow's platform. It offers a more engaging respondent experience than a plain form but relies on fixed question paths rather than true adaptive probing. Works for structured feedback collection but not for reconstructing incident-specific detail.

What it does well

  • Conversational UI that improves completion rates versus static forms
  • Ready-to-use template requiring minimal setup
  • Part of a broader survey platform with reporting and distribution tools

Where it falls short

  • No AI-driven follow-up questions — branching is pre-set, not generated from the respondent's actual answer
  • No per-response quality scoring or voice-based interview option
  • No mechanism to reconstruct a specific recent disruption in narrative detail

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