Why you need this template
No visibility into employee work status
Mitigate business disruption by keeping track of remote employee availability. Identify alternative workload allocations to keep projects on track.
Inability to quickly identify projects at risk
Mitigate risk by quickly identifying projects that require immediate attention. Easily access an aggregated assessment of revenue at risk.
Inconsistent employee communications
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 to import Slack statuses into Wrike 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. Visualize employees, projects, and revenue at risk by location, department, and business unit.
FAQ
The business continuity template helps leaders keep their operations moving forward in times of crisis and identify any at-risk projects due to changing circumstances or unavailable workers.
With the business continuity template, you can manage employee communication through self-reporting. The self-reporting form allows employees to indicate whether they are working from home or unable to work due to illness.
At-risk projects can be identified through statuses like “resource availability risk”, “customer risk”, and “customer financial risk”. Through employee self-reporting, the template can reveal which projects need additional attention to prevent project failure or delay.
To use this template, simply enter the business email linked to your Wrike account. Then begin taking advantage of the pre-configured resources like the self-serve form and rapid response plan.
Yes, it is possible to see an overview of ongoing tasks by reviewing them in Gantt chart view.
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