This template provides you with the tools you need to respond quickly during a crisis. It enables you to mitigate risk by quickly identifying projects that require immediate attention. It helps you minimize business disruption by keeping track of remote employee availability and to communicate with ease across your entire organization.
Business Continuity Template
Wrike’s COVID-19 Business Continuity Template offers a roadmap for maintaining operations during times of change. It allows you to see at-risk projects, helps you track employee availability, and makes communication simple.
1 Mitigation plan2 Communication plans2 Dashboards4 Reports2 Request forms18 Custom fields2 Table views
Maintain business continuity in times of crisis
Why you need this template
Challenge
No visibility into employee work status
It’s easy to lose oversight into employee availability and work statuses when things change fast. This causes major disruptions and slows businesses down.
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Solution
Mitigate business disruption by keeping track of remote employee availability. Identify alternative workload allocations to keep projects on track.
Challenge
No visibility into employee work status
It’s easy to lose oversight into employee availability and work statuses when things change fast. This causes major disruptions and slows businesses down.
See the solution
Solution
Mitigate business disruption by keeping track of remote employee availability. Identify alternative workload allocations to keep projects on track.
Challenge
Inability to quickly identify projects at risk
It can be hard to identify those projects that are most at risk during a crisis. This risk only increases as time passes.
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Solution
Mitigate risk by quickly identifying projects that require immediate attention. Easily access an aggregated assessment of revenue at risk.
Challenge
Inability to quickly identify projects at risk
It can be hard to identify those projects that are most at risk during a crisis. This risk only increases as time passes.
See the solution
Solution
Mitigate risk by quickly identifying projects that require immediate attention. Easily access an aggregated assessment of revenue at risk.
Challenge
Inconsistent employee communications
Remote team communication is a challenge during times of rapid change. Inconsistent communication leads to inconsistent results.
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Solution
Rapidly respond to any crisis and communicate with ease across your organization. Align internal and external communication to core business changes.
Challenge
Inconsistent employee communications
Remote team communication is a challenge during times of rapid change. Inconsistent communication leads to inconsistent results.
See the solution
Solution
Rapidly respond to any crisis and communicate with ease across your organization. Align internal and external communication to core business changes.
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How to use the Business Continuity Template in Wrike
There are 3 major components to this template to assist you with your business continuity planning.
1. Remote work status updates
Keep track of employee remote work availability to mitigate business disruption and identify available alternative resources to keep your projects on track.
The template includes a self-serve form and shareable URL for employee remote work status updates, an employee status tracker, predefined custom fields, an employee availability timeline overview report, and a report to view employee status by location.
When an employee’s status is updated in Slack, it can be synced with the template using Wrike Integrate to import Slack statuses in real time.
2. Project risk mitigation plan
Quickly identify projects requiring immediate attention and understand their impact on revenue.
The template includes a self-serve form and shareable URL for risk alert, predefined custom fields, a risk alert tracker, and a dashboard.
3. Rapid response communication plan for COVID-19
The COVID-19 communication plan provides your team with a plan template, an overview, and progress updates to manage internal and external communication around core business changes. Dependencies and milestones are clearly identifiable.
The template includes the rapid response communication project, pre-built with dependencies, milestones, and a Gantt chart.
Integrates with Slack
Automatically import employee statuses including location, title, group of employees.
Advanced visualizations
Take action to mitigate risk with a single dashboard for your business continuity plan, available with Wrike Analyze. Visualize employees, projects, and revenue at risk by location, department, and business unit.