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Generally in business we have a specific goal, and we plan for achieving a goal is strategy. In past the strategy is popular in military only. But In this modern age strategy is not only popular for military application only, modern management has used in relation to business operation. Every company must define medium and long term goal. For this reason business manager must design in organization plan. In which they include strategy to follow. One the company have established its plan and strategy all functional area of the organization must develop their plans (Bahan, 2009). Which must be in support your organization strategy. Today information technology and information system plays a significant role in business performance. The IT/IS department should analyze and interprete your organization’s plan and strategy to be able to design a strategic plan align with objectives and goals. It establishes with organization plan this evaluate existing system and technology and it infrastructure in order to identify the need for technology solution and provide recommendations to the companies in order to improve its execution and helps new sustainable competitive advantages. Strategic planning provides a theoretical framework so that manager and executives of organization can be able to outline the action to be taken to direct the companies towards the future their vision (Abazar & Manteghi, 2011).

Disaster is uncertain and unplanned outages include failure caused by database correction, component failure, and human error. On the other type of incident that may cause data availability is unnatural or man - made disaster such as flood, fire, and earthquake. Disaster recovery is coordinated process of restoring system data and infrastructure required to support on opening business operation in the event of a disaster (Lewis, 1999). Restoring previous copy of data and applying logs to that copy to bring it to a know point of consistency, generally implies use of backup technology is disaster recovery.

Disaster recovery planning ensures your data remains safe and easily accessible no matter what kind of natural disaster may strike (Schwab, 2013). A solid disaster recovery planning means you won’t lose all the data that makes up the foundation of your business.

Business continuity is an integrated and enterprise wide process that includes all activities (internally and externally of IT) that a business must perform to mitigate the impact of planned and unplanned downtown. The main goal of a business continuity solution is ensure the information availability required to connect vital business operations (Wilson, Disaster Recovery Journal ).

Business continuity means keeping the business running under ant types of extreme circumstances. Weather you lose access to your system, you building or your city challenges are still have clients that need you (Dushie, 2014). The perfect business continuity plan means you can keep working, helping, your clients and doing business when you are faced with a dramatic challenges.

References

Abazar, Z., & Manteghi, N. (2011). A proposed model for strategic planning in educational organizations. Proc. Social Behav. Sci., 28: 205-210. DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.11.039 .

Bahan, C. (2009). The disaster recovery plan. Sans Institute .

Dushie, D. (2014). Business Continuity Planning: An Empirical Study of Factors. Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development ISSN 2222-1700 (Paper) ISSN 2222-2855 .

Lewis, S. (1999). Disaster recovery planning. Internal Auditor .

Schwab, J. (2013). Planning for post-disaster recovery and reconstruction. Federal Emergency Management.

Wilson, B. (Disaster Recovery Journal ). 2003. Business Continuity Planning: A Necessity In The New E-Commerce Era .