Business Continuity for Business Agility

2009 ◽  
pp. 310-337
Author(s):  
Nijaz Bajgoric
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Business Continuity ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
Computing Technologies ◽  
Business Agility ◽  
Available Information

Continuous computing technologies are employed in order to achieve business continuity from the business operations perspective. In the same time, these technologies are the main prerequisite for business agility as agility relies on available information and “always-on” information system that generates it. Business Agility and relations with business continuity technologies are briefly explained in Chapter XIV

Business continuity management: a systemic framework for implementation

Kybernetes ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nijaz Bajgoric
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Business Continuity ◽  
Enterprise Information System ◽  
Enterprise Information ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Business Continuity Management ◽  
Computing Technologies

Purpose – The paper aims at defining a systemic framework for the implementation of business continuity management (BCM). The framework is based on the assertion that the implementation of BCM should be done through the systemic implementation of an “always-on” enterprise information system. Design/methodology/approach – Systems approach is used in order to design a systemic framework for the implementation of continuous computing technologies within the concept of an always-on enterprise information system. Findings – A conceptual framework has been proposed to develop a framework for a systemic implementation of several continuous computing technologies that enhance business continuity (BC) in the form of an “always-on” enterprise information system. Originality/value – The paper identifies BC as a business pressure in internet era and suggests a systemic framework for implementation.

Value Oriented Engineering Solutions for Business Continuity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Luis Delgado Rivera
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Electrical Equipment ◽  
Business Continuity ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
Safety And Reliability ◽  
Major Disruption

Abstract This paper presents a systemic approach using Engineering and analytics methods to avail the fastest and safest responses to recovering business operations after Abqaiq Plants major disruption after the 2019 September 14th incident. This new approach using value and agile engineering, risk management methodologies combined with the business continuity model suggested was successfully applied to recover Abqaiq Plants Operations after catastrophic events occurred. This paper pretends to serve as example about how the business continuity plan should response to a major emergency and how this planning activity could be effectively supported using a Value Oriented Engineering Solutions (VOES). This VOES approach is based on Business continuity framework and adapted for use during emergency situations to generate effective and urgent responses to recover one of the most strategical operations in the Oil and Gas Industry worldwide ahead of the last year significant disruption. VOES approach vastly implemented during Abqaiq Plants Restoration allowed a 100% functional recovery on 9 days, 5 days in advance to the most optimistic scenario. This paper shows a case study implemented for major instrumentation and electrical equipment activities performed in UA Spheroids plant, one of the most affected area and responsible to process the 100% of the Abqaiq Plants Oil Production rate. This paper pretends to contribute with the research and practice on business continuity management. Considering a particular approach to BCM, incorporating value-oriented engineering solutions in the developing of continuity plans; we apply model-based techniques to provide quality assurance in the elaboration process, and to automate the generation/update of a BCP. On the practical side, this study converts Operational, Maintenance, Safety and Reliability perspectives in a holistic view provided from Engineering solutions responsible to generate the guidelines for an agile, effective and realizable recovery plan.

Environmental databanks on the Chemical Information System

1988 ◽  
Vol 40 (5) ◽  
pp. 133-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Huddart
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
National Institutes Of Health ◽  
Bibliographic Databases ◽  
Chemical Information ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Online Source ◽  
Us Government ◽  
Available Information ◽  
Chemical Information System

The Chemical Information System (CIS) is a system of approximately 30 databanks available as a dial‐up online source of interactively available information for chemical compounds and their properties. The system was formerly known as the NIH/EPA Chemical Information System on account of its inception and development by two US Government agencies — The National Institutes of Health and Environmental Protection Agency. It is in particular the involvement by the EPA that explains the emphasis of the system on environmental information and the importance of the CIS as a source of data in this area. The databanks are by and large numeric and text databanks containing actual values and observations (quantitative and qualitative results), in contrast to bibliographic databases which, in general, contain only references to the sources of information. The data is compiled by many different producers and ranges widely in terms of applications. The information available can be broadly categorised as:

scholarly journals CEO SUCCESSION ORIGIN, TYPES AND ITS EFFECT ON PERFORMANCE IN MALAYSIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 10-22
Author(s):  
Wan Masliza Wan Mohammad ◽  
Siti Nurhani Sheikh Ahmad ◽  
Sumathi Kumaraswamy ◽  
Rapiah Mohd Zaini ◽  
Azleen Shabrina Mohd Nor
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Sample Size ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Financial Data ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Ceo Succession ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
Ceo Successions ◽  
Future Growth

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of CEO succession origin (Internal versus External), types (Voluntary and Force) on firms’ performance. The effect of CEO succession on firms’ performance is investigated using a sample size of 80 firms which consists of 40 firms that had been identified from the list in Bursa Malaysia to have experienced CEO succession and 40 firms that do not experience CEO succession in the year 2014. All financial data and variables are gathered from annual reports and the Emerging Market Information System (EMIS). The findings of this study indicate that CEO origin has no effect on performance. However, the study found a positive association between forced CEO successions on performance. Our finding suggests forced change in the CEOs improve the performance over the lag two years’ period. The appointment of new CEOs via force allows for comprehensive change in the strategy, business operations, and firm’s future growth.

scholarly journals METHODOLOGY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION SYSTEM «PHONE DIRECTORY OF THE SSGUGT»

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-194
Author(s):  
Darya S. Chepkaya
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Unified Modeling Language ◽  
Modeling Language ◽  
Main Stage ◽  
Unified Modeling ◽  
Uml Modeling ◽  
System Project ◽  
Available Information ◽  
Search Information

The article deals with the problem of searching and selecting information. Currently, this kind of problem is solved by using search information systems. The main stage of creating a search information system is the development of the project, which is carried out using the unified modeling language UML and the CASE tool Power Designer. When developing a system project using the UML modeling language, all available information about the designed system is represented as a set of graphical elements, in other words, graphical structures. Such constructions are called diagrams. They reflect the essence of the system and consider it from different sides and represent the processes that take place in it in different ways.

scholarly journals Risk Analysis in the Preparation of a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) in it Services: a Case Study of Universitas Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akmal Gafar Putra ◽  
Betty Purwandari ◽  
Farisya Setiadi
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Risk Analysis ◽  
Service Management ◽  
Security Management ◽  
Business Continuity ◽  
It Services ◽  
It Service ◽  
High Level ◽  
Very High

Based on the Horizons Scan Report 2021 by BSI, the top 6 threats to organizations today are pandemics, health incidents, safety incidents, IT and telecommunications outages, cyberattacks, and extreme weather. Universitas Indonesia (UI), as a modern, comprehensive, and open campus, strives to become a leading research university globally. As the IT service manager at UI, the Directorate of Information Systems and Technology (DSTI) has the task of strengthening service management by implementing risk management and security management in line with relevant laws and policies. The main problem for DSTI as an IT service at UI is that there are no documents related to risk management and information security management, resulting in IT services’ failure. This year, there have been four data center failures due to power and UPS problems. DSTI wants to improve IT services at UI by implementing risk management and Business Continuity Management System (BCMS). This study aims to conduct a risk analysis to design a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) for IT services at the University of Indonesia. The research was conducted using mix method. The OCTAVE qualitative method was carried out in finding a list of risks on critical assets in IT services at UI. A quantitative approach is needed to rank the risk list using a questionnaire and FMEA calculations to get a risk priority number. This study separates the risk of general assets and information system assets. For critical assets, it is generally found that two are at a very high level, one is high, eight risks are at a low level, and 12 are at a very high level, for information system assets found 12 assets with very high risk, three medium and one low.

scholarly journals Using Intelligent Clustering to Implement Geometric Computation for Electoral Districting

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 369
Author(s):  
Ying-Che Hung ◽  
Liang-Yü Chen
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Geographic Information System ◽  
Computing System ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Computing Technologies ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Global Representation ◽  
Feasible Solutions

Traditional electoral districting is mostly carried out by artificial division. It is not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but it is also difficult to maintain the principles of fairness and consistency. Due to specific political interests, objectivity is usually distorted and controversial in a proxy-election. In order to reflect the spirit of democracy, this study uses computing technologies to automatically divide the constituency and use the concepts of “intelligent clustering” and “extreme arrangement” to conquer many shortcomings of traditional artificial division. In addition, various informational technologies are integrated to obtain the most feasible solutions within the maximum capabilities of the computing system, yet without sacrificing the global representation of the solutions. We take Changhua County, Taiwan as an example of complete electoral districting, and find better results relative to the official version, which obtained a smaller difference in the population of each constituency, more complete and symmetrical constituencies, and fewer regional controversies. Our results demonstrate that multidimensional algorithms using a geographic information system could solve many problems of block districting to make decisions based on different needs.

Semantic Web Based Agricultural Information Integration

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 39-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaladevi Ramar ◽  
Geetha Gurunathan
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Semantic Web ◽  
Information Integration ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Integrated Systems ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Prevention Methods ◽  
Available Information ◽  
Semantic Linkage ◽  
The Web

Huge volume of information is available in the WWW. However, the demand is on relevant information rather than available information, which are often heterogeneous and distributed. Agriculture is one such domain, which includes information like soil, crops, weather, etc., under one roof. This information is in different representations and structures e.g. weather. This scenario leads to a challenge that how to integrate the available and heterogeneous agricultural information to deliver better production. The information on the web is syntactically structured but, the need is to provide semantic linkage. The semantic web supports the existing web to easily process and interpret information. In this paper, a semantic based Agricultural Information System (AIS) is proposed which addresses heterogeneity issues among weather systems and integrates information like soil, weather, crop and fertilizers. AIS helps the farmers regarding the type of crop/soil, crop/climate, fertilizer applications, diseases and prevention methods using effective retrieval of information from integrated systems.

Business continuity and disaster recovery in Ghana–a literature review

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Barnett-Quaicoo ◽  
Aminu Ahmadu
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Disaster Recovery ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Business Continuity ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Past ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
The Government ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Comprehensive Study

PurposeBusiness continuity and disaster recovery are directly associated frameworks which guarantee the continued operations of organisations after a disaster has occurred. Thus, researchers have continued to investigate best practices in this area. It is in this vein that the authors of this study seek to draw attention to what pertains in Ghana and what role the government can play to improve the situation. The purpose of this study is to explore some of the disasters which have been suffered by businesses in Ghana as well as the causes, effects and lessons learnt. The study will also look at business continuity and disaster recovery measures that could have been implemented in the examples provided.Design/methodology/approachThe study follows a literature review approach by reviewing secondary data on both man-made and natural disasters that have affected Ghana in the past decade through the review of literature.FindingsThe comprehensive study of the selected disasters indicated the presence of business continuity and disaster recovery measures in some formal institutions; however, the informal sector appeared to have minimal provision for handling disasters.Research limitations/implicationsThe authors were limited to the use of the account from the resources used since this study relied on secondary data.Practical implicationsThe study indicates that businesses in Ghana must implement business continuity and disaster recovery plans to protect business operations in the event of a disaster.Originality/valueThe study has not been previously published in any other journal. Secondary data for carrying out the study were obtained from other publications including online media platforms in Ghana.

Methodological Approach to Systematization of Business Continuity in Organizations

2021 ◽  
pp. 200-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelson Russo ◽  
Leonilde Reis
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Business Continuity ◽  
Good Practices ◽  
Iso Standards ◽  
Systematic Overview ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
Business Continuity Management

The underlying concept of business continuity is that an organization must have the strategic and tactical capability to plan and respond to business incidents and interruptions, in order to continue business operations at an acceptable predefined level. This chapter proposed an approach to business continuity management in an organization through the definition and implementation of a set of four related phases. The authors integrate the main guidelines, based on the literature review and on good practices and concerns, referred to in the ISO standards and on ITIL, CMMI, and COBIT frameworks. This approach will allow organizations to address the most relevant activities for the development of a business continuity management program. By implementing each of the phase activities, the organization will have a systematic overview of the steps required for an optimized planning and response to business incidents and disruptions, supported by the strategy defined framed within their needs.

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