Question

List 5 processes in your current company that would be impacted by a power outage. Rank them in priority order (low, medium, high) to help gain an understanding of which processes are most critical to get the business back up and running

Answer 1

Let's say, the company is a manufacturing industry where the whole or majority of work is dependent on power. If there is a power outage, the following work shall be impacted in the order of priority as follows:

1. High priority: The manufacturing operations shall be shut off leading to no production.

2. High priority: Systems shall be shut off due to which other vigilance will be shut off. It may lead to any trespassing due to lack of power to keep a watch on critical activities.

3. High priority: If the power outage was a surprise, some work would hang up as work in process and in the office work might be unsaved at the time of power outage due to which data would be lost resulting to waste of man hours.

4.. Medium priority: The office computers would be off due to which the office work shall be hampered. If any reporting is to be done, the dependency on system shall interrupt the same and no work would be submitted.

5. Low priority: The IT calls would not be addressed. If the system wouldn't work, the calls logged for system would also not be addressed leading to further delay.