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How exposed to AI is a Business Continuity Planner?

Of the 21 tasks O*NET lists for business continuity planners, 4 could be done in half the time with a chat window today. 4 cannot be sped up at all. Here is which.

Exposure means published research judged an AI could halve the time a task takes, at the same quality. It does not mean the task stops needing a person. How to read this

Also called
Business Continuity Administrator (Business Continuity Admin)Business Continuity AnalystBusiness Continuity and Disaster Recovery ConsultantBusiness Continuity ConsultantBusiness Continuity CoordinatorBusiness Continuity ProfessionalBusiness Continuity SpecialistBusiness System ConsultantDisaster Recovery SpecialistService Continuity Manager
Reachable today Needs software built first Cannot be sped up
21
tasks rated for this occupation
78%
hold a degree, from a survey of 23
1030k
people do this job in the US
25 of 48
least protected in business and finance

Every task, and what AI can do with it

These are O*NET's task statements for this occupation, exactly as written, sorted into the three bands by the ratings behind this report. Nothing has been reworded.

Reachable with a chat window today

4
  • Write reports to summarize testing activities, including descriptions of goals, planning, scheduling, execution, results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations
  • Create scenarios to reestablish operations from various types of business disruptions
  • Interpret government regulations and applicable codes to ensure compliance
  • Prepare reports summarizing operational results, financial performance, or accomplishments of specified objectives, goals, or plans

Only with software built on top

13
  • 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
  • Develop disaster recovery plans for physical locations with critical assets, such as data centers
  • Review existing disaster recovery, crisis management, or business continuity plans
  • Conduct or oversee contingency plan integration and operation
  • Identify opportunities for strategic improvement or mitigation of business interruption and other risks caused by business, regulatory, or industry-specific change initiatives
  • Create or administer training and awareness presentations or materials
  • Attend professional meetings, read literature, and participate in training or other educational offerings to keep abreast of new developments and technologies related to disaster recovery and business continuity
  • Recommend or implement methods to monitor, evaluate, or enable resolution of safety, operations, or compliance interruptions
  • Create business continuity and disaster recovery budgets
  • Maintain and update organization information technology applications and network systems blueprints
  • Design or implement products and services to mitigate risk or facilitate use of technology-based tools and methods
  • Analyze corporate intelligence data to identify trends, patterns, or warnings indicating threats to security of people, assets, information, or infrastructure
  • Identify individual or transaction targets to direct intelligence collection

Cannot be sped up

4
  • 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
  • Establish, maintain, or test call trees to ensure appropriate communication during disaster
  • Conduct or oversee collection of corporate intelligence to avoid fraud, financial crime, cyber attack, terrorism, and infrastructure failure
What this does not say

This is not a prediction about your job

Nobody surveyed an employer. Tasks are counted equally, so a percentage here is a share of the list rather than a share of your week. And the ratings were made in 2023, which makes every figure a floor rather than a ceiling.

It must never be used to select anyone for redundancy. The full limits are here.

Where to go next

This is the standard task list for the title. The useful next question is which of the tasks you actually do should go near AI, and which should not.

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Exposure ratings from Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, GPTs are GPTs: Labor market impact potential of LLMs, Science 384, 1306–1308, 2024, used under the MIT licence. This page includes information from the O*NET Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. People Team AI has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications. Employment figures from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.