Fluent Essays

Please take a look with attached word document.No plagiarism please, provide minimum of 2 APA references Total 1 Main discussion and 2 responses for other discussion discussion.docx Unformatted Attachment Preview Main Discussion: Write 300-words response Search for a company or school that has defined the role of end- users in the creation of a contingency plan. Discuss why it is (or is not) important to include end users in the process of creating the contingency plan? What are the possible pitfalls of end user inclusion? Classmate Post: Swati Write 150-word responses each for below discussions While researching for companies or school that have define the role of end-users in creation of a contingency plan I came across Huawei’s plan while it faces a suspension from Google’s parent company Alphabet as it will not able to share any sort of hardware or software between the companies which is a major setback for Huawei as its operating system Android is largely depended on Google. This has an impact on the overseas sales of the smartphones by Huawei, but since in this scenario Huawei has already a contingency plan which helped them take control over this situation along with the end-users not being affected by this makes it a slight impact on the company. “For the moment, Google’s move will have little impact on Huaweis domestic phone customers but will affect its phones users and futures sales in overseas market, a market that has already become a major driving force for the growth of the companys phone shipments.” (2019) This shows us that having a plan along with keeping I the mind the end-users play a significant role as its important for the reputation of the company to maintain the business with certainty and see that there is no objection or hurdles in its way if some variables that are integral for smooth running of the business changes. As we all know risks and unknown variables are part of this and security measures need to be taken to recover from such scenarios. “Its easy to put off business continuity planning. There are always immediate crises that demand our attention. But how significant are they really compared to an event that shuts your business down for hours, days or weeks? Taking the time to prepare a business continuity plan will have a huge payoff if a disaster ever strikes.” (May 2019) The possible pitfalls of end user inclusion that these plans are sometimes end plans for companies and there might not be any plan B, so if this doesn’t work it might be a disaster. Sometimes when we keep the end-user in mind while making the plan, we are more focused on the results this can lead to an unstructured contingency plan as well as some security concerns can also arise in terms of unplanned business variables. End users are integral to a business, but we should also keep in mind the business data and information in the plan as this can be a pitfall in situation, as this data is an asset and helps to recover from situations. Classmate Post: Abhilash Write 150-word response Every organization stores a massive amount of data and this is used for performing daily operations. For a single operation to be successful, an organization utilizes a number of resources. Any small attack or issue with the data or resource will affect a wide range of data, some attacks can be identified and resolved. If the problem is with external events such as earthquakes, floods fires, etc., then it would be very difficult to resolve as these events cannot be predicted before, we will not be aware until the total damage has occurred. So, having a contingency plan before acts as a solution at these times of critical situations. A contingency plan is plan B or the alternate plan that is pre-designed by the organization to be used at these kinds of situations or when the desired result does not meet the expected criteria. So, it is very important for every organization to design a good contingency plan as this helps in bringing out the organization from any unforeseen or unexpected events. Every organizations contingency plan will be different, and this totally depends on the organization structure and the issues that exist in the organization, but the main criteria the contingency plan should satisfy is, it should be able to restore all the critical business operations. It is very important for the organization to maintain this contingency plan secret and should be known only to the people who are responsible for operating the contingency plan, so in most cases only the senior level management takes the responsibility of designing and implementing the contingency plan whenever needed. End-users are the persons who finally make use of the product or service developed by the organizations, whoever make use of the product can be stated as an end-user. So, in some cases, the end-user may also be the persons within the organization and in some cases, the end-users may be the people across different parts of the world. There is always a confusion for every organization whether to involve the end-users in the contingency plan or not. It is not also always mandatory to involve the end-users in the contingency plan, and there are also some pitfalls involved in this process. If the end-users need to be involved in the contingency plan, then they should be trained separately this involves more cost and effort. But in some situations, it would be mandatory to involve the end-users in the contingency plan, so if there is no impact of the unforeseen event on the end-users then they need not be involved. ... Purchase answer to see full attachment