Continuity Readiness
What still works when something important suddenly does not?
Continuity readiness asks what remains executable when normal conditions change: the people, systems, suppliers, fallbacks, authority, and assumptions that critical activity depends on.
Continuity is often described through plans and systems. In reality, it also lives in human dependencies, decision authority, role continuity, degraded operations, and what people believe will still be available when pressure arrives.
Start with what must remain executable. The first step is clarifying the critical activity, dependencies, and assumptions that deserve examination.
The dependencies behind critical activity.
Critical activity: what must continue, even if conditions are degraded or normal support is unavailable?
Dependencies: which systems, suppliers, access points, information, facilities, and human knowledge does that activity rely on?
Fallback and authority: who can decide, substitute, escalate, pause, or change rhythm when the usual path is blocked?
Current work starts with one continuity claim.
Rather than reviewing continuity in the abstract, MRC examines one bounded claim, the critical path behind it and the evidence available. The aim is to clarify what the evidence can support, where the claim must contract and what remains unknown.