Thesis on "Disaster Plan"

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Disaster Management Plan

SCENARIO

XYZ Insurance Company, with corporate offices in Miami, recently suffered significant losses due to a hurricane. The company has no formal disaster management plan; only some minimal procedures (e.g., covering the computer equipment with plastic sheeting). The firm has contracted with a professional crisis management consultant for the purpose of developing a disaster management plan. The XYZ company facility, based in Miami, is located in a tidal flood zone. This area has suffered over the past decade from severe flooding and water and wind damage due to hurricanes and other tropical storms. The company's it (information technology) department backs up all the company's data on a daily basis, but has no secure offsite repository in which to store it. The it director takes the computer disks containing the backed up data home with him every day and stores them in a filing cabinet.

DISASTER PLAN

OBJECTIVE

The objective of this work is to develop a basic outline to serve as a guide in disaster management planning development and implementation. The writer in this work will fill the consulting role and will, according to the disaster management plan outline as set out in Module 2 develop a disaster management plan for the XYZ Insurance Company.

I. The NEED of a DISASTER Management PLAN

In order to avoid the losses that XYZ suffered previously due to lack of risk management in the organization it is necessary that a disaster management plan be developed and implemented. Failure to plan for the worst-case scenario in the organization resulted in lost medical records and this resulted in difficulties in the company's collaboration network as well as the negative impacts to the clients of the organization. The development of strategies for quickly recovering operations in the event of a disaster were not previously integrated into alternative strategic operations for maintenance of the functions that were of primary importance during the disaster. Having acknowledged the need for development and implemented of the plan the organization must necessarily proceed to the design, development and implementation of a Disaster Management Plan for the purpose of 'risk management'. There are several very 'key' and vital aspects that will serve as a basis to this plan for disaster management which includes the preparation of 'Corporate Awareness and Training' programs which will serve to inform corporate awareness and further will serve to "enhance skills required" in the development, implementation, maintenance and execution of the Disaster Management Plan. Testing will be an important component in the disaster management plan for XYZ as well as will be the testing and exercise of the plan and ultimately the documentation of the results of the plan.

II. COORDINATION and INTEGRATION of NETWORKS

Also important in this plan will be the component of effective coordination with public authorities. This will involve the establishment of policies as well as procedural methods in what will serve as a continuum of collaborative interaction with the organizations: (1) employees; (2) employee's families; (3) key customers; (4) Critical suppliers; (5) owners/stockholders, and corporate management during a crisis. Execution of the plan is dependent upon first defining the problem with clarity and understanding the various roles and levels of accountabilities among the various levels of management in the organization and as well teams must be identified along with their respective responsibilities; Risk evaluation will include the examination of loss potentials or 'threats' that present to the organization which include those of the nature of: (1) natural; (2) manmade; (3) accidental; (4) intention; (5) internal; and (6) external.

III. DISASTER Management PLAN TAILORED to ORGANIZATION

The work of Howard (1997) entitled: "Tailor Disaster Plans to Organization: RM (Risk Management" states that the 'key' to disaster planning "is to grasp what's catastrophic for a particular organization..." (Howard, 1997) That which in fact is constitutive of a disaster also in fact, Howard relates that this is referred to as 'contingency planning' because "risk analysis should go well beyond traditional insured risks and encompass the total-risk profile."(Howard, 1997) Disaster Recovery Planning is inclusive of much more than simply backing up company

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