Question

A crucial starting point to develop an effective disaster recovery plan is to develop an efficient Business Impact Analysis (BIA). The BIA evaluates the potential effect of interruptions to an organization’s critical business operations; therefore, it is an essential component of the process as it highlights system or functional vulnerabilities and conveys processes or strategies to minimize the impact of the incident. This week you will conduct a BIA for an organization. The organization can be a real company of your choice or a fictitious entity. The purpose is to have you engage and actively thinking about some of the components that are required to develop an effective BIA to guide disaster recovery planning efforts. Briefly, provide some background about your company. Who is the company, its stakeholders, and the services it offers? Identify one critical business operation or core process. What is the maximum allowable outage time for the operation or process? What technology, personnel, or other resources are required to support the process or operation? Identify at least three inputs and three outputs for the identified operation or process. Elaborate on each of the inputs and outputs dependencies. Are there any regulatory or legal ramifications due to the function or process outage? If so, what are they? If not, explain why. While the process or function is inoperable, what viable temporary solution do you propose to address the situation? What benefits will all that you have described have on the organization? What disadvantages will all that you describe have on the organization? While the activity is based on either a real or a fictitious company, your submission must still adhere to APA guidelines; include academic or reputable industry sources, in-text citations to support your claims, and a reference list.

Answer 1

My Organization (*Previous) is a Glass Bottle Manufacturer.

Its Stakeholders Include Employees, Managing Committee, Customers, and Government & Legal Organizations.

It manufactures Glass Bottles used in Packaging Materials used in Cosmetics, Perfumes, Food & Pharmaceuticals.

The Manufacturing Process is quite critical i.e. it requires Sand & Other Ingredients to melt over 1000^oC. After which molten sand is collected in small containers called as "mold" & then they are cooled at room temperature.

The maximum allowable outage time for the operation or process is ~30 minutes.

Technology-Heating above atmospheric conditions in a closed equipment (furnace)

Personnel Type-Production (Operators), Product Designer, Production Planner, Tester (Quality Control), Packer, Logistics (Material Movement).

3 Inputs- Raw Material, Power & Machine

Only 2 Outputs- Product (Glass Bottle), Defective Product (Recycled again).

Elaborate on each of the inputs and outputs dependencies. Are there any regulatory or legal ramifications due to the function or process outage?

The Manufacturing Process requires Sand to melt over 1000^oC & convert sand into Glass Material. There are many regulatory or legal ramifications due to the function or process outage.

Pollution Control Limits as the fumes (dissolved solids) are generated when sand is melted at high temperature.

There is no such process viable temporary solution if the function is inoperable.

Since there is no such process viable temporary solution if the function is inoperable hence there are no advantages / disadvantages on the organization