Disaster Recovery Journal

So I didn't meet my ambitious goal of one blog per week... Well, in my defense it didn't really make good sense. After one week, I had little more than I did when I first wrote the blog. The second week was kind of the same. By the third week I was kind of frustrated. It was hard to write a project plan to create a corporate Business Continuity policy and plan without any experience and only

Oakland Sued For Not Including Disabled People In Disaster Planning

The following appeared on a Yahoo Groups Emergency Management (EM) list:

"A lawsuit was filed today against the City of Oakland to address the City's failure to adequately plan to meet the mass care and shelter needs of people with disabilities

What is common in the sports world is often taboo in business.

The terrible topic: Succession

For Business Continuity planners, it is a topic that must be addressed.

Carefully.


Immortality


No matter what our position in the organization or community, no matter what our contributions, there will come a time when

About a year ago, as I was plying my trade as a contract consultant with a nearby pharmaceutical company, I was contacted by a recruiter for a BIG company. He said my credentials, posted on the major job search websites, caught his eye and that I should be of interest to his client. I was interviewed by phone with one of the practice leaders, then the practice executive. In both conversations,

“Spending $1 million a copy for something that doesn’t seem to be a real threat may not be the best use of the country’s money,” said ATA spokesman David Castelveter. 'There has not been a commercial aircraft in a non-combat zone shot down' by a shoulder-fired missile. The ATA has another solution: better airport perimeter security. "

The foregoing

Hello out there and thanks for reading. As you might have guessed, I am new to BC and eager to learn. I recently transferred into the newly-created Business Continuity Planner position at my company knowing very little about the field. According to my new boss, I was chosen because of my background with the company which consists of four years as a software developer spread over two of our three