Identify types of disruptive events. Outline the contents of a business impact analysis (BIA). Discuss recovery strategies and the importance of crisis management. Explain backup and recovery techniques including shared-site and alternate site agreements. Introduction Upon reading this chapter, you may feel like you are preparing for a project management role rather than an information security role, but you’ll soon see that the interests of those who manage the business and those who safeguard it are intertwined.
With storms there may be no warning or little warning and should be placed in a reactive mode. Begin by reviewing what would affect the safety of employees and how the crisis will affect the business. Placing the business on alert can help prepare all employees and those around them to act when needed. Using the hurricane season be reviewing a plan of action, resources available, and the capabilities the business has is essential (Kung,
BCP Implementation Plan Austin Ford Western Governors University JIT2 – Risk Management Task B November 25, 2013 Business Continuity Plan (BCP) I. Pre-Incident Changes The Mosaic Company is a global corporation that counts on technology for e-mail, information, and financial reporting so it’s vital for Mosaic to be mature in safeguarding its assets, operations and continuity by safeguarding its assets. The disaster recovery is stated thoroughly in the plan for the data centers. The plan explains the duties, processes and activities needed to reduce the vital purposes of the infrastructure and client data. If properly implemented, the drive of the BCP is to mitigate the impact to the clients, reduce outages, and set objectives to re-institute business availability and guarantee the re-establishment of network availability and assets. The primary goal of the BCP for Mosaic is to have the Incident Response team in place so that systems, networks and data are recovered in a timely manner.
Using the decision-making steps, first the problem has to be framed. In doing so, the problem is first identified because if the problem the people of Kava are facing is unknown, we cannot find a solution to the problem. One problem Kava is facing is terrorist attacks. Kava faces both internal and external terrorist attacks. Also Kava is faced with natural disasters and HIV/AIDS epidemic The Army defines the criteria, goals, and objectives for the task at hand in an attempt to revive the economy of Kava.
Identify the main reasons for reviewing working methods, products and / or services in a business environment. The main reason why a business should review working methods, products and / or services are to ensure that they are keeping in line with other businesses. An example of not keeping up with the times is HMV. Change can cause added pressures to the business. However there are changes that would have a small affect on the business.
- Call for help (i.e.) Use line repair personnel from unaffected areas in the area of the outage. - Analyze how much progress is achieved at the end of the day as review areas that need help and allocate resources to that area. Cullman’s priority for the following 2-3 weeks is as follows: - Formulate an Emergency/Disaster Management plan using Steve Foshee’s plan as an outline. - In the Emergency Management Plan, provide roles for staff, chain of command, protocol to follow, meeting areas and communication modes.
Unethical behavior undermines positive gains. Intentional use of information to misguide public perception is harmful in all aspect of business. The concept of business research must be adhered at all times, and therefore managers must take every effort to enforce it, and employees held accountable for this process to take its full effect. The stages of business research are the following: 1) Clarifying the Research Question 2) Proposing the Research 3) Designing the Research Project 4) Data Collection and Interpretation 5) Reporting the Results In Stage 1, problem must be identified in order to initialize the business research, and thus providing clear guidance on the research process. In Stage 2, the proposal is created and presented for managerial review and approval.
Question 1 Carefully review the Assignment scenario/case study. From the limited information in the scenario/case study, identify at least three direct and specific long-term and three direct and specific short term operations changes that Albatross Anchor must make to gain a clear and sustainable competitive advantage (provide detailed information to validate and support each recommended change). Long-Term Operational Changes (01) Being in compliance and staying in compliance to U.S. safety and environmental standards goes both ways long term and short term goal wise. It’s not good for business if workers are injured or in jeopardy of being injured because of negligence on the plants part or due to faulty equipment or even the work environment itself. If OSHA does an inspection and, let’s look at worst case scenarios here, you are forced to shut down to get in compliance, you will lose money and time while this is being done.
QHT1 Task 4 9/6/2015 As a manager of a business it is important to know how to overcome the communication barriers. I will list the four key types of communication barriers and how to avoid them so a company can run more productively. The four categories are process barriers, personal barriers, physical barriers, and semantic barriers. Process barriers are having an issue of communication between the sender and the receiver. An issue occurs when the message has too much information and it’s confusing, having a fear of criticism or language differences.
Along with the widespread probability of a natural disasters occurring (tidal waves/tsunami, typhoons/hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and earthquakes just to mention a few), and non-natural disasters (terrorism) contributes to the destabilization of the island’s infrastructure. Kava is a culture of fusion with a variety of different ethnicities, languages, and religions all culminating in one diverse island. Communication is going to be vital in launching business on a foreign island. Raytheon will benefit by acquiring an interrupter in the interim until language classes and or bi-lingual employees can be hired. A Human Resources Manager or Coordinator need to be brought on at this time as well, one who has studied the various religions and cultures.