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Business Continuity Planners
Develop, maintain, or implement business continuity and disaster recovery strategies and solutions, including risk assessments, business impact analyses, strategy selection, and documentation of business continuity and disaster recovery procedures. Plan, conduct, and debrief regular mock-disaster exercises to test the adequacy of existing plans and strategies, updating procedures and plans regularly. Act as a coordinator for continuity efforts after a disruption event.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Develop 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 could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Test documented disaster recovery strategies and plans.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Develop disaster recovery plans for physical locations with critical assets, such as data centers.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Establish, maintain, or test call trees to ensure appropriate communication during disaster.AI could speed this up a lot
- 05Identify opportunities for strategic improvement or mitigation of business interruption and other risks caused by business, regulatory, or industry-specific change initiatives.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Maintain and update organization information technology applications and network systems blueprints.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Review existing disaster recovery, crisis management, or business continuity plans.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Analyze impact on, and risk to, essential business functions or information systems to identify acceptable recovery time periods and resource requirements.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Write reports to summarize testing activities, including descriptions of goals, planning, scheduling, execution, results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations.AI could speed this up a lot
- 10Create or administer training and awareness presentations or materials.AI could speed this up a lot
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss19%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
57%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 73% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Your human edge
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.