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This 5 page paper discusses business continuity plans and resources relevant to Baderman Island. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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a computer. This paper discusses what sorts of business continuity resources are relevant to Baderman Island. Discussion The term "business continuity" refers to "the uninterrupted maintenance of business activities" (Business
continuity, 2008). In other words, it deals with how to keep a business running in the face of such things as natural disasters, manmade disasters or other losses of control
(Business continuity, 2008). Ensuring business continuity "requires a proactive process of identifying essential business functions within an organization and threats to those functions," and then developing plans to meet these
contingencies (Business continuity, 2008). The first thing that comes to mind is the obvious: Baderman is an island, with all the potential problems that entails. Perhaps the only way to
get to the island is via one bridge, which could be washed out in a violent storm; or perhaps there is no physical connection and visitors arrive via boat or
air only. Here, weather could keep planes and helicopters grounded and boats at anchor, meaning there would be no way to get anything to Baderman in an emergency. This in
turn means that the island has to be self-sustaining for a period of time. If the emergency occurs on the island but there is still communication with the mainland, other
concerns arise. For a business to survive it has to plan for every conceivable type of disruption, including natural disasters as noted above (they seem to be the category of
disruption most likely to occur in this setting); as well as other problems such as terrorism, sabotage, communications or equipment failure, or "the failures of supply chain and sales affiliate
organizations" (Noakes-Fry, 2001). Some of these disasters will be understood and forgiven-guests who are trapped by a storm, for instance, may look at the whole thing as an adventure-but others
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