The Impact of Digital Transformation on Business Continuity Management: Redefining ‎Corporate Strategies for Resilience

  • Authors

    • Haslinda Binti Musa Faculty of Technology Management and Technopreneurship, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia ‎Melaka
    • Surya Seetharaman Saveetha School of Law, Simats and SP Jain School of Global Management
    https://doi.org/10.14419/4189zh28

    Received date: August 1, 2025

    Accepted date: October 14, 2025

    Published date: November 9, 2025

  • Digital Transformation; Business Continuity Management; Resilience; Corporate Strategies; ‎Artificial Intelligence; Cloud Computing; Data Analytics; Organizational Agility; Risk ‎Management; Crisis Response.

  • Abstract

    The digital revolution is also contributing to the disruption of Business Continuity ‎Management (BCM) by leading to the shifting of technology in organizational structures. This ‎offers new avenues to organizations on how they can improve their resilience improvement ‎strategies.. In the face of digital disruption, organizations are not simply challenged by digital ‎transformation, but also by volatile market conditions and geopolitical uncertainties. Therefore, ‎planners with BCM responsibilities are weighed down by multi-faceted issues in assessing how best ‎to continue operations and be prosperous in the long-term by including digitization in the BCM ‎planning. This paper will identify key trends and case studies on the use of digital technologies ‎‎(e.g., AI, cloud, workplace analytics, etc.) to identify risks, shape response, and help assess ‎recovery IT during crises. The results illustrate how organizations with a digital transformation ‎agenda show more resilience and preparedness to anticipate digital disruptions; reorganize ‎communications flow; and mobilize their resources in response to challenges. Moreover, the paper ‎identifies the criticality of fostering organizational cultural change, characterized by agility, ‎innovation, digital transformation, and collaboration. By adopting digital innovation concepts, ‎organizations can enhance their contingency planning and develop a more effective response to ‎unforeseen events. Additionally, organizations will redefine and have the capacity to move beyond ‎their approach to continuity planning, as they find that not only can they emerge through ‎disruption, but they can also emerge with a greater resilience and competitive edge in an ‎environment that is becoming increasingly volatile and uncertain. The study adopts a mixed-methods approach, combining a structured survey of 120 professionals with 10 semi-structured ‎interviews, to examine the integration of digital tools in BCM practices. This paper offers insights ‎for corporate individuals seeking to harness digital innovations to bolster their resilience and ‎sustainability strategies in the future, to strengthen long-term organizational resilience.

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    Binti Musa, H. ., & Seetharaman , S. . (2025). The Impact of Digital Transformation on Business Continuity Management: Redefining ‎Corporate Strategies for Resilience. International Journal of Accounting and Economics Studies, 12(7), 346-352. https://doi.org/10.14419/4189zh28