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Homework answers / question archive / Required Discussion for Week 4 Risk Management and Business Continuity Complete the readings this week as well as reviewing the IT Strategic Plan, Part 2 assignment and the “IHS Risk Management Guide” (from Week 3 course content) before completing this week’s discussion
Risk Management and Business Continuity
Complete the readings this week as well as reviewing the IT Strategic Plan, Part 2 assignment and the “IHS Risk Management Guide” (from Week 3 course content) before completing this week’s discussion.
This discussion is to help prepare you for the ITSP, Part 2 assignment. The concepts being discussed here relate to risk management and business continuity planning from the business perspective. In your ITSP Part 2 assignment you will discuss these topics from an IT perspective. Provide a response to one of the following:
For this week, each member of Group 4 should create a main posting by Saturday midnight, and each member of Groups 1, 2 & 3 should respond to at least two class members by Tuesday midnight. Since this is a "discussion," you should check back to see if I or anyone in the class have a question for you or make a comment to which you wish to respond.
Please review the Grading Rubric located in the Discussions area to see how discussion participation will be graded, and note that, if you are doing the primary response, you need to reply back to classmates who post in your thread, and if you are in the groups replying, "more than 2" replies are needed to receive full points (a grade of "A").
Please ensure you cite in APA format, any sources you have used in your posting.
In my mind, here are the three processes that are crucial to GGFRT:
Payroll - If the drivers don't get paid, I expect they'll find work with the competition.
This process will be done manually, like most of the financial reporting is currently being done. I know that this isn't fun but calculating payroll is just a formula and while longer with calculators (and a bit error prone) it can still be done.
Route Provisioning - Making routes for the drivers is also a critical process.
Half of this process is already manual. While route efficiency will get progressively worse if the system was down, we aren't completely reliant on it. Doing it all by hand may lead to inefficient routes and some driver idle time while routes are put together, the business will continue.
Scheduling Maintenance - Trucks breaking down will begin a cascade of failure the business can't sustain.
Not getting notices that vehicles need to be routed through Scottsdale for work could lead to breakdowns. If the Scottsdale facility itself goes down, we will have to use a third party maintenance facility during that outage. Using the third party will eat into profits, but it will keep the business up and running.
Ideally, we will begin to put some measures in place to reduce the impact of these outages.
Resource
National Institute of Standards and Technology. (2010). Contingency Planning Guide for Federal Information Systems (p. 8). U.S. Deptarment of Commerce.
