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Discussion on: Disaster Recovery & Business continuity OR looking forward to new technology and business trends?

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For both the researches and practitioners, strategic planning of information systems has lately become an interesting subject, dealing with IS-development and information technologies (IT) implementation in business systems (Brumec, 1997). This is because the information system today is a central to success and strategic competitiveness. Most of the organizations are creating IT strategic plan to provide road-map for them. The system has integrated with the strategy the company established. This alignment of the draft with the system has result the efficiency of the strategy so far.

Some of the major areas that strategic planning of information systems cover are:

  1. Vision, principles, and policies: Today, the use of IT will determine the organizational vision, mission, and culture. The set vision and principles are translated into policies and procedures that reach down into business processes and workplace culture. It would not only limit to the internal process management, but, also used for external process management enable customers, distributors and suppliers to interact with the organization.

  2. Project portfolio management: The strategic plan should also outline the IT related projects to support business goals. The project portfolio management is a process for selecting the projects and manage the portfolio. Competitive strategy distinguishing from rivals, its return on investment and compliance and risk reduction are also important drivers for projects to comply or not.

  3. Disaster recovery and business continuity: All the procedures and documentation the organization puts to prepare for a disaster and recover the technical infrastructure is a disaster recovery.

If I have to choice between disaster recovery and business continuity, or looking forward to new technology and business trends then I would go for disaster recovery and business continuity. This is because it would help in finding the business impact analysis, and identifying the most critical and time-sensitive information systems. It would also explains that who will be in charge, how people will communicate, and how the firm will determine the severity of the disaster (Nollau, 2009).

References

Brumec, J. (1997). Strategic planning of information systems. Journal of Information and Organizational Sciences, 21 (2), 11-26.

Nollau, B. (2009). Disaster recovery and business continuity. Journal of GXP Compliance, 13 (3), 51.