TITLE:
The Impact of Business Expertise on Information System Data and Analytics Resilience (ISDAR) for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: An Exploratory Study
AUTHORS:
James A. Rodger, Ganesh Bhatt, Pankaj Chaudhary, Germaine Kline, William McCloy
KEYWORDS:
Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Data Analytics, Resilience
JOURNAL NAME:
Intelligent Information Management,
Vol.7 No.4,
July
10,
2015
ABSTRACT: Disaster recovery (DR) and business
continuity (BC) have been important areas of inquiry for both business managers
and academicians. It is now widely believed that for achieving sustainable
business continuity, a firm must be able to recover from both man-made and
natural disasters. This is especially true for maintaining and recovering the
lifeline of the organization and its data. Although the literature has
discussed the importance of disaster recovery and business continuity, there is
not much known about how Information System Data Analytics Resilience (ISDAR)
and the organization’s ability to recover from lost information. In this
research, we take a step in this direction and analyze the relationship of IS
personnel expertise on ISDAR and investigate Information System (IS) personnel
understanding of the firm’s competitive priorities, IS Personnel understanding
of business policies and objectives, IS personnel’s ability to solve business
problems, IS personnel initiatives in changing business processes and their
determination and attentiveness to focus on achieving confident leadership in
data and analytics resilience. We collected data through a survey of IS and business
managers from 302 participants. Our results show that there is evidence to
support our hypothesis and that there may indeed be a relationship between
these variables.