During turbulent times, enterprises need to find ways how to adapt, become resilient and strengthen abilities to cope with emerging threats. Business continuity management (BCM) is an enterprise strategic managerial capability. The recent global pandemic increased BCM maturity in many enterprises, still the importance of the capability is underestimated, and the enterprises are facing challenges to design and implement it across different enterprise architecture (EA) dimensions. In this paper, a business continuity (BC) framework for BCM capability development is proposed. The framework aims to provide guidance on design of BCM along different EA dimensions. It summarizes BC architecture principles and conceptualizes BC knowledge from related research as a reference architecture. The paper highlights challenges faced in BCM implementation, presents conceptual design of the BC Framework and its components. The application of the framework is demonstrated using an example from a target EA development project at a public sector institution.