Organizations must plan for contingencies. Business continuity planning and disaster recovery must start long before a catastrophe strikes. Electronic/digital processes are ubiquitous and at the core of many business functions, so no longer is restoration of a centralized data center sufficient. While the work is often rooted in IT, the entire organization must be considered. Thus, it is important to learn to analyze organizations; identify risk and impact; understand complexity; identify mission-critical systems; communicate the need for planning; create, test and implement business continuity plans; and conduct disaster avoidance.Prerequisites: Management Principles or equivalentAssumptions about surrounding courses: Familiarity with the functions of management including planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling (such as one should gain through the listed prerequisite course or through professional experience). Students must also have the ability to do academic research using the college library, evaluate material, and effectively communicate ideas in an academic format (such as one should develop through lower- level college studies).This course was previously SMT-274604 Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery.