Information Service Delivery - IT Service Continuity Managment

This thesis deals with the aspects of managing the business continuity by the methodologies of ITIL and Cobit. The main thesis objective is to find out if there exists one general aplicable solution of the business continuity managment process based on the relative approach comparison and integration of both methodologies and afterwards to define this general solution. The secondary thesis objective is to try to specify the problem issue, which is not covered neither one of those methodologies and then integrate it into this general solution. The purpose of first chapter is to analyze and generally describe the business continuity managment area, its relation with IT Service Managment, to define all key issue terms and to give a best practice review dealing with this field. In the following chapters there is a detailed look at the concrete individual approaches of metodics ITIL and Cobit to the area of business continuity managment. The final chapter deals with approach comparison of both methodologies based on by author defined key fields as target group, enterprise type, terminology, mature models, metrics, concept and relative mapping of relevant points. The chapter provides the general complex solution guideline of this issue by simultaneous implementation of both methodologies as well. This is the main contribution of this work. The next contribution consists in the definition of irrational employee behaviour problem during disaster and its integration to this general guidelines.