# Operational continuity

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**Operational continuity** refers to the ability of a system to continue working despite damages, losses, or critical events. In the [Human Resources](/source/Human_Resources) and Organizational domain, including [IT](/source/Information_technology), it implies the need to determine the level of [resilience](/source/Resilience_(organizational)) of the system, its ability to recover after an event, and build a system that resists to external and internal events or is able to recover after an event without losing its external [performance management](/source/Performance_management) capability. Organizational Continuity is achieved only with specific [corporate planning](/source/Corporate_planning).[1] In the material domain, it determines the need to adopt redundant systems, performance monitoring systems, and can even imply the practice to cannibalize or to remove serviceable assemblies, sub-assemblies or components from a repairable or serviceable item of equipment to install them on another, in order to keep the external system performance active.[2] Operational continuity may be referred to single systems, single individuals, up to teams or entire complex systems such as [IT infrastructures](/source/IT_infrastructure), implying the ability of an organization or system to continue to provide its mission.

## See also

- [Business continuity](/source/Business_continuity)

- [Disaster response](/source/Disaster_response)

- [Emergency management](/source/Emergency_management)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Argenti, John (1974). Systematic Corporate Planning. Wiley.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO Standardization Agency AAP-6 – Glossary of terms and definitions, p. 188.

## External links

- [National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-34: Contingency Planning Guide for Information Technology Systems](http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublication800-34r1.pdf)

- [The Professional Practices for Business Continuity Management, Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRI), 2017.](https://drii.org/resources/professionalpractices/EN)

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