Business continuity plan framework for small it businesses

Nowadays, small IT businesses suffer many failures of computer hardware, software and data loss as the highest risk to business disruptions. These disturbances can be addressed by implementing a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) to survive the business from many adverse events. BCP is one of the activi...

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Main Author:	Alkhateeb, Maeen Mohammed Abdulbaqi
Format:	Thesis
Published:	2014
Subjects:	HD Industries Land use Labor
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spelling	my-utm-ep.483662017-08-02T07:42:24Z Business continuity plan framework for small it businesses 2014 Alkhateeb, Maeen Mohammed Abdulbaqi HD Industries. Land use. Labor Nowadays, small IT businesses suffer many failures of computer hardware, software and data loss as the highest risk to business disruptions. These disturbances can be addressed by implementing a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) to survive the business from many adverse events. BCP is one of the activities that enable business to continue operating in case of an incident or disaster. Consequently, every business should consider adopting flexible BCP that would be ready for any unpredictable events. However, there are many solutions of the BCP; unfortunately, most of these existing BCP solutions address large companies or multinational companies. Due to this situation, this study will propose a framework of BCP specific for IT small businesses, that will help this type of businesses to operate, compete, and remain profitable. To achieve this purpose, the study gone through three main phases, the first studied and analysed the previous solutions, second designed a framework for small IT businesses and the last verified the effectiveness of the design framework for small IT businesses. To validate the proposed framework, questionnaire distributed to small IT businesses in both Kuala Lumpur and Johor Bahru states. The result of this study was divided into four main sections. First, discussed general information of small IT businesses second, explored a BCP general knowledge and familiarity third, validated of the propose framework for small IT businesses and finally adopted the proposal BCP framework within small IT businesses. The evaluation of the framework depended on small IT businesses that have produced a BCP. Result of the evaluation was the approximate 4 of 5 2014 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48366/ masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Computing Faculty of Computing
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topic	HD Industries Land use Labor
spellingShingle	HD Industries Land use Labor Alkhateeb, Maeen Mohammed Abdulbaqi Business continuity plan framework for small it businesses
description	Nowadays, small IT businesses suffer many failures of computer hardware, software and data loss as the highest risk to business disruptions. These disturbances can be addressed by implementing a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) to survive the business from many adverse events. BCP is one of the activities that enable business to continue operating in case of an incident or disaster. Consequently, every business should consider adopting flexible BCP that would be ready for any unpredictable events. However, there are many solutions of the BCP; unfortunately, most of these existing BCP solutions address large companies or multinational companies. Due to this situation, this study will propose a framework of BCP specific for IT small businesses, that will help this type of businesses to operate, compete, and remain profitable. To achieve this purpose, the study gone through three main phases, the first studied and analysed the previous solutions, second designed a framework for small IT businesses and the last verified the effectiveness of the design framework for small IT businesses. To validate the proposed framework, questionnaire distributed to small IT businesses in both Kuala Lumpur and Johor Bahru states. The result of this study was divided into four main sections. First, discussed general information of small IT businesses second, explored a BCP general knowledge and familiarity third, validated of the propose framework for small IT businesses and finally adopted the proposal BCP framework within small IT businesses. The evaluation of the framework depended on small IT businesses that have produced a BCP. Result of the evaluation was the approximate 4 of 5
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Alkhateeb, Maeen Mohammed Abdulbaqi
author_facet	Alkhateeb, Maeen Mohammed Abdulbaqi
author_sort	Alkhateeb, Maeen Mohammed Abdulbaqi
title	Business continuity plan framework for small it businesses
title_short	Business continuity plan framework for small it businesses
title_full	Business continuity plan framework for small it businesses
title_fullStr	Business continuity plan framework for small it businesses
title_full_unstemmed	Business continuity plan framework for small it businesses
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Business continuity plan framework for small it businesses

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