RE: Business Contingency Plan

At 09:03 AM 4/23/97 EDT, Peter wrote:
>I see all of these messages going back and forth saying "let me see your plan,
>or I'll show you my plan"   A real disaster recovery plan is NOT a RSTLIB plan.
>What value is the AS/400 being up and running if the rest of the company cannot
>function.  A disaster recovery plan is like god's best creation, women.  They
>all have the same basic features but each is made different according to
designs
>of the makers.  The kind of hardware, software, communication lines etc.  I
>could go on for hours but a true business contingency plan covers other items
>than the AS/400.  Because we are 400 people, we tend to have a distorted
view of
>contingency planning.  The view, me first.  The plan should be exactly what is
>says a business contingency plan and NOT a rebuild the AS/400 plan.  What good
>is a restore plan goinig to do in Grand Forks ND.  Nothing!  Read the book and
>get a good idea of what real planning is all about.  I never had a good feeling
>until I reviewed the book.


Hear, hear!  When the 747 crashes into your building, or your computer room
is under 10 feet of water, you have to know:  
        Where do your people report to work?  
        Will they have anything to do?
                Do you have all those catalogs / price sheets / &c that they
rely on to enter orders or check credit?
        Will they have terminals or PCs on their desks?  
        Where did those desks -come- from?  
        Telephones?  Tin cans and strings?  Did you have the phone company
                forward your calls to your disaster site?
        Hotel space to live in...
        Rent-a-cars or vans or buses to get them to and from the hotel...
        Airplane tickets to get them to where ever the rent-an-office is.

Will your people even -go- to the disaster recovery site?  If the disaster
is big enough, they're going to be much more concerned with pumping out the
basement and restoring their lives than going to work in a strange city just
to sell widgets.


You could write a -book- (and they have) about the details of rebuilding
your company.  Many don't survive.

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com

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