Posts tagged: BCP

Operational Details Matter: Things to Pay Attention to In an Emergency Operations Centre

They say that the devil is in the details. They also say that God is in the details. Whichever one is true, the main gist is cor­rect: you’ve got to pay atten­tion to the details if you want your emer­gency oper­a­tions cen­tre (EOC) to oper­ate smoothly and effec­tively. You need to pay atten­tion to details […]

BCP & Emergency Management Exercises">It’s Only Ridiculous Until You Experience The Real Deal: BCP & Emergency Management Exercises

Design­ing and under­tak­ing exer­cises are crit­i­cal to the devel­op­ment and val­i­da­tion of busi­ness con­ti­nu­ity plans and emer­gency man­age­ment plans. They are also crit­i­cal to the train­ing & famil­iar­iza­tion that your organization’s peo­ple will need in order to respond as effec­tively as pos­si­ble when the time comes. Yet, exer­cises often aren’t taken seri­ously by man­age­ment or […]

Tuesday June 29th, 2010 in , , , , | Comments Off

SMS in an Emergency is No Guarantee of Establishing Successful Communication">Using SMS in an Emergency is No Guarantee of Establishing Successful Communication

Some agen­cies are advis­ing the pub­lic to use text mes­sag­ing (SMS) in a large-scale emer­gency. The ratio­nale is that the voice lines will be over­loaded, but the lit­tle data pack­ets for text mes­sag­ing will get through. Con­cep­tu­ally this sounds nice. In fact, I used to advise this in the past, too. But based on my understanding […]

Wednesday February 10th, 2010 in , , , | Comments Off

The Digital Civilization is Built on Sand — and It Won’t Take A Catastrophe to Realize That

We are build­ing a dig­i­tal civ­i­liza­tion on sand.  In fact, we don’t need any­thing as dras­tic as a world­wide cat­a­stro­phe to real­ize this.  On an indi­vid­ual level, sim­ply con­sider the data you may have in old file for­mats.  On an orga­ni­za­tional level, con­sider how you might restore data off your backup tapes when you need […]

Tuesday February 9th, 2010 in , , , | Comments Off

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