Activity: Assess the Role of Information Technology in Crisis Management

Activity Description

In a paper, identify and evaluate strategies for crisis management. Your paper should focus on the information technology perspective in terms of crisis management. Your paper should include answers to the following questions:

What is technology's role in managing a crisis situation? Does it change depending upon the crisis?

Should a manager within the information technology team be in charge of the crisis? Why or why not? What plans and procedures should be in place regarding information technology in times of crisis?

How can organizations ensure the crisis plan will be effective BEFORE a crisis actually occurs? What does the current research say about the role of information technology in a crisis?

Support your paper with a minimum of five recent (within the past five years) scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including older articles, may be included.

Length: 5-7 pages not including titles and reference pages

Resources

Books Reference

Coombs, W. T. (2008) PSI handbook of business security: Securing the enterprise.

Coombs, W. T. (2008) PSI handbook of business security: Securing the enterprise.

Articles Reference

Beebe, N., & Rao, V. (2010). Improving organizational information security strategy via Meso-level application of situational crime prevention to the risk management process.

Moskowitz, H., Drnevich, P., Ersoy, O., Altinkemer, K., & Chaturvedi, A. (2011, May). Using real-time decision tools to improve distributed decision-making capabilities in high-magnitude crisis situations.