Define what must endure
Name the essential purpose, practices, relationships, safeguards, and outcomes that continuity must protect.
CHAPTER 7 - PROTOCOL 4
Continuity Architecture
TIME90 minutes plus follow-up
OWNERPrincipal with representative leadership and operational team
ARTIFACTContinuity architecture map + one resilience test
- The design identifies the essential purpose and minimum conditions for continuity.
- Knowledge, authority, ownership, routines, and feedback are distributed clearly.
- Single-person dependencies and transition risks are visible.
- One resilience test is scheduled with evidence and a return date.
Map the current architecture
Trace ownership, decision rights, knowledge, documentation, routines, communication, feedback, and support.
Redesign for resilience
Clarify roles, distribute capability, improve knowledge access, build redundancy, and preserve feedback and adaptation.
Run the resilience test
Test the design against a transition, absence, disruption, or changed condition and revise from evidence.
WORKING ORGANIZER
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REFLECTION PROMPTS
- Which part of the work exists mainly in someone’s head?
- What should remain stable, and what must remain adaptable?
- Where does continuity depend on unpaid or invisible labor?
EQUITY GUARDRAILS
- Continuity must preserve lawful authority, privacy, safety, and due process.
- Do not turn resilience into an expectation that people absorb chronic vacancies or overload.
- Build access to knowledge and leadership opportunity across roles and identities.