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Joy Collins

Embry Riddle Aeronautical University

Business Continuity

Once a business has undergone disruption, it requires business resumption. After disastrous interruption, a disaster recovery plan may be used to recover information technology assets. This means that operations that are reactive and critical are stopped.

Shifting from business resumption to business continuity planning is required to recognize that some services or products must be delivered continuously without interruption.

Critical products and services are continually delivered to clients through business continuity plan. Business continuity plan endeavors to ensure that critical operations are always available rather than focusing on resuming business after critical operations ceased or after recovering from a disaster.

To ensure survival of an organization, prevent injury as well as meet its legal n other obligations, critical products and services must be delivered.

A business continuity plan includes: To recover the facility, data and assets of an organization, plans, measures and arrangements of critical products and service delivery must be continuous

Identifying crucial business resources that support business continuity like personnel, information , equipment, financial allocation, legal counsel, infrastructure, protection and accommodation.

Image of an organization with employees, shareholders and customers is enhanced by demonstrating proactive attitude in the business continuity plan. Overall organizational efficiency improvement, identifying the relationship of assets and human and financial resources to critical services and deliverables are all additional benefits.

Business continuity plan is important in every organization because they are at risk from potential disasters like natural disaster such as earthquakes and fire, safety and service sector failure power and energy disruptions, communications, accidents, transportation, environmental disasters such as pollution, cyber-attacks and hacking activities.

To deal with these emergencies, an institution should create and maintain business continuity plan that has information and resources needed to counter them.

Business continuity plan creation has five sections which typically includes its governance, business impact analysis, plans, measures, and arrangements for business continuity, readiness to procedures and quality assurance techniques.

Identifying organizations mandate and critical services and products; ranking the order of priority of services and products for continuous delivery and rapid recovery; and identifying internal and external impacts of disruptions should be done by business impact analysis.

Goods and services to be delivered is determined in the stage of identifying the mandate and critical aspects of organization.

Products and services identified are prioritized basing on minimum acceptance delivery levels and minimum period of time the service can be down before severe damage to organization results.

The period in which the organization can stay without the products and service and the effect not felt should be determined.

Processes and functions that support service and product delivery involved with the creation of revenue determine its loss.

Should identify how long it would take before additional expenses start to add up in business functions and processes.

By making sure that staff and all other employees are aware about the continuity plan of the business, the continuity business would be implemented effectively. Responsibilities of the employees should be provided to them and proper training done to them. They should be made ware about the terms and conditions of the business.

Due to limited time window, I would make sure that training is done to the workers to ensure everyone has the skill required to complete the work in time. I would assign each work their responsibility in order to be able to monitor their performance. This is meant to increase their productivity in order to save on time.

Reference

Hotchkiss, Stuart. Business Continuity Management: In Practice. Swindon: British Informatics Society, 2010. Internet resource.

Rittinghouse, John W, and James F. Ransome. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for Infosec Managers. Amsterdam: Elsevier Digital Press, 2005. Internet resource.

Hiles, Andrew. The Definitive Handbook of Business Continuity Management. Hoboken, N.J: Wiley, 2011. Internet resource.