What Is a Contingency Plan?
If things don’t work out as you plan what are you going to do? With a bit of luck you will have a backup plan, and if you don’t then you might be in big trouble. When we make plans we always hope that things will work out as we expect. It doesn’t always happen like that and so it pays to plan for the worst. A contingency plan then is a backup plan that we can turn to when things start to go wrong. All successful companies will have a contingency plan; in fact they will likely have many for the different aspects of the business.
