CMGT 583 Harvard Business Review Competitive Forces Paper

Porter, M. E. (1985). The competitive advantage: creating and sustaining superior performance. NY: Free Press

A Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) focuses on the recovery of IT systems, applications, and data in the

Presentation regarding the university’s Disaster Recovery Plan/Enterprise Continuity Plan including: basic structures; roles within the DRP/ECP plan; areas within a company if addressed improve resilience to catastrophic events, and an employee awareness campaign.

When it comes to the company XYZ Computers the disaster recovery plan needs to incorporate a lot of different questions that have to be answered before you can implement whatever they want achieved. The main questions that are brought up when assessing any question is,”How do we fix this? What are the costs associated with the plan presented?” Another question that should be asked but often isn’t, is “Can we anticipate this problem to help block it before it happens?” From there different categories should be implemented as manmade although not as common as a natural disaster that will affect your system, it still needs to be considered. There should also be a ranking system in the plan using two categories, these

Foundation of IT in a place is very crucial for most business. Organizations can use IT resource to create innovative and strategic process that helps business to reach beyond the status quo. Organization without new technologies resources can lose momentum and fall behind in competition. On the other hand, organizations with effective and updated technologies remain competent and superior; get competitive advantage thus acquire and maintain their big market share.

Disasters have become an inevitable part of businesses and organizations as well. They not only have a major effect on business and organizational continuity; they also result to an overhaul in organizational operational mechanisms (Awasthy, 2009). It is for this reason that many organizations and business resort to preparing business continuity plans and disaster recovery plans that will facilitate better disaster management in future. Effective disaster recovery plans are important to every business and organization (Thejendra, 2008).

Disaster recovery is the process of an organisation uses to recover access the data, and also hardware that are needed to recollect the performance to be in normal position after a disaster occurs. While disaster recovery plans have to be focus in every aspect in any organisation and bringing the gap closure after destruction it can be like data, hardware, or software have been lost and the manpower that composes much of any organisation.

Disaster Recovery Planning is the critical factor that can prevent headaches or nightmares experienced by an organization in times of disaster. Having a disaster recovery plan marks the difference between organizations that can successfully manage crises with minimal cost, effort and with maximum speed, and those organizations that cannot. By having back-up plans, not only for equipment and network recovery, but also detailed disaster recovery plans that precisely outline what steps each person involved in recovery efforts should undertake, an organization can improve their recovery time and minimize the disrupted time for their normal business functions. Thus it is essential that disaster recovery plans are carefully laid

Owning a business can have many stressors day to day. When starting a business there is a lot of planning and preparation involved. Many small businesses are owners who have put their own money into the business and look at it as an investment. Unfortunately with all the planning that goes into starting a business, one thing is often over looked. Most of the time the “what ifs”, are not part of the planning stage. One reason for this is that people do not like to think of the bad things that could or may happen. So with all the time and planning put into starting a business why not put some extra thought into a plan B if a disaster strikes? This plan B could be a business continuity plan or a disaster recovery plan. Business continuity plans are an essential part of the modern day business. There are so many potential disasters for small businesses that could seize the production or even close the business down for good. A recent study from Gartner Inc., found that “90% of companies that experience data loss go out of business within two years. It also found that 80% of company owners have not thought about how they would keep their businesses up and running if a data disaster occurs.” According to the Association of Records Managers and Administrators, “about 60 percent of businesses that experience a major disaster such as a fire close

Because of people’s lifestyle tends to be healthier according to National Restaurant Association’s survey in 2010, but pizza consider as a junk food so the industry started to offer salad bars and began to add gluten-free and low 0carbohydrate items on the menus with low trans fat pizza. Also it offers vegetables, calcium, and protein for the pizza topping.

In 2003 when Nicholas Carr wrote the article “IT Doesn’t Matter” companies were just beginning to utilize information technology as a competitive advantage. Mr. Carr contends that technology is not a permanent advantage because in time the competition will acquire the same resources and Information Technology (IT) just becomes another commodity. For the majority of companies throughout the world IT resources have become easily accessible and affordable. If Mr. Carr’s opinion is correct then the equality of IT access has just become a cost of doing

The competitive force is a system to understand an industry by examining the interactions among competitors in an industry or non-profit sector: potential new entrants, substitute offerings, suppliers, and buyers to the non-profit sector (Ketchen & Short, 2015, Section 3.1). To help analyze the forces a professor by the name Michael Porter developed a popular analytical tool used in the business world to identify how much profit potential exists in an industry (Ketchen & Short, 2015 Section 3.1). In Figure #: Competitive Five Forces, is a model for the analytical tool that reveals the component of the threat of new entrants, threat of substitutes, bargaining power of suppliers and buyers, and rivalry are rated on a scale of low-to-high to show the impact of the competition within the warm water therapy industry is and how KAA functions in the industry.

The mobile technology are or will be soon embedded to the Toyota cars in the next few years (Ziegler, 2016). Toyota’s Data Communication Models(DCMs) will be available in many models in various global markets, the DCM technology equipped autos will have functions of standard emergency notification in crash. Early in 2013, Toyota has started the service of real time big data traffic to Japan market (Phneah, 2013). Toyota announced the goal of Vehicle Data Management: “

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