Disaster Recovery Journal Fall 2024

Harnessing Your Business Continuity Plan for AI Integration: A Strategic and Practical Roadmap

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By ERIK BORGEN

s your organization struggling with implementing AI? Maybe you already have most of what you need? In the rapidly evolv ing landscape of artificial intel ligence (AI), businesses are rapidly adopting AI solutions to maintain their competitive edge. However, the rush to integrate AI often overlooks a valuable resource that can streamline the

process and mitigate risks: the business continuity plan (BCP). We may currently be in a place where many organizations feel they must suc cessfully deploy AI quickly or lose market share to competitors who do. If that is true for you, using something you already have, like a BCP, that can accelerate AI implementation may be an easier sell to the board room than anything that slows down adoption. The fact it simultaneously

anchors your deployment in a mature risk framework may be seen as a fortunate biproduct. The Untapped Potential of BCPs While not yet widely adopted when this was written, the integration of AI with BCPs and disaster recovery procedures (DRPs) represents a novel and promising approach to enhancing business resilience.

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