critical issues in the management of the disaster recovery and business continuity planning process.

Research Paper: For the Research Paper, each student shall prepare a research paper on critical issues in the management of the disaster recovery and business continuity planning process.

The goal is to summarize the issues the issues in the management of Disaster Recovery (DR) / Business Continuity (BC) practices. The goal of the assignment is to give you an opportunity to develop into the issues in trying to develop a workable DR/BC plan that allows an organization to recover from and continue operations if some type of a disaster occurs.

Project Components:

Evaluation of the project will be evaluated on: the degree of insight offered (as compared to description), the link to concepts presented in the course (the quality of the link is critical, not the number of concepts used) and whether the recommendations are valuable, realistic, and well supported.

Research Paper

The student will be expected to research and submit a 11 page research paper on critical issues in the management of the disaster recovery and business continuity planning process. MUST INCLUDE A DISASTER RECOVERY TEMPLATE

Evaluation of the project will be evaluated on: the degree of insight offered (as compared to description), the link to concepts presented in the course (the quality of the link is critical, not the number of concepts used) and whether the recommendations are valuable, realistic, and well supported.

Note: The main body of the paper must be a minimum 11 pages not including the appendix items and reference bibliography, double spaced, 12 pt. Times New Roman Font

Description of the main problems/major issues in the case Analysis of the problems to identify root causes Recommendation with supporting arguments Suggestions for implementation and evaluation of the changes recommended

Analysis

1. Does the paper contain analysis of the major issues?

2. Does the analysis incorporate the relevant tools properly?

3. Are the assumptions made in the analysis stated explicitly?

4. Does the analysis isolate the fundamental causes of problems in the cases?

Strategic insights

1. Are the recommendations based on sound strategic concepts?

2. Are the recommendations consistent with the concepts of supply chain management?

3. Are the effects of any recommendations on the business well thought out?

4. Are the recommendations feasible?

Recommended Actions

1. Are the criteria for choosing among alternative recommendations stated?

2. Are the criteria appropriate?

3. Is the plan of action linked to the analysis?

4. Is the action plan specific, complete, and practical?

5. Is it likely that the recommendations will achieve their intended results?

Exhibits

1. Are the analyses in the exhibits done correctly?

2. Do the exhibits support and add to the text on the key points?

Coherence

1. Is the paper too long?

2. Is the paper of professional quality?

3. Is the paper logically consistent and effectively structured to sell the