Book chapter
Business Continuity Planning: A Strategic Dilemma?
Digital Business Security Development: Management Technologies, pp.163-172
Business Science Reference (IGI Global)
2011
Abstract
ICT systems are expected to be available 24/7 to internal and external users regardless of the circumstances, but the nature of uncertainty in complex and dynamic environments makes Business Continuity Planning more relevant today than ever before. Organisations providing 24/7 ICT availability become strategic dilemmas for decision makers, hence, to ensure operations, managers must balance the costs involved in providing an almost zero downtime infrastructure for information availability with the trust ICT users have on a given organization. Decision makers need to assess possible disruptions and vulnerabilities that can impact on ICT availability to all users. This chapter argues that approaches, such as virtualisation, can provide cost advantages to organizations by ensuring availability and resilience through flexible system implementation, and to achieve this objective, committed strategic managers must have arguments to defend this view.
Details
- Title
- Business Continuity Planning: A Strategic Dilemma?
- Authors
- Oscar Imaz-Mairal (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Business
- Contributors
- Don Kerr (Editor)J G Gammack (Editor)K Bryant (Editor)
- Publication details
- Digital Business Security Development: Management Technologies, pp.163-172
- Publisher
- Business Science Reference (IGI Global)
- Date published
- 2011
- DOI
- 10.4018/978-1-60566-806-2.ch008
- ISBN
- 9781605668062
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; USC Business School - Legacy; School of Science, Technology and Engineering
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449784502621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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