The Impact of Business Expertise on Information System Data and Analytics Resilience (ISDAR) for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: An Exploratory Study

James A. Rodger¹, Ganesh Bhatt², Pankaj Chaudhary¹, Germaine Kline¹, William McCloy³

¹Indiana University of Pennsylvania, MIS and Decision Sciences, Eberly College of Business & Information Technology, Indiana, PA, USA.
²Department of Information Science & Systems, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
³Human Resources Management Consultant, Wexford, PA, USA.

DOI: 10.4236/iim.2015.74017                

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.

Keywords

Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Data Analytics, Resilience

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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