Dear Wasti In this case, where the process is fully dependent on a machine and nothing can be done manually (without it), then the minimum service level is...
Marouen, One of the better lists is on the National Safety Council site, at: http://www.nsc.org/lrs/statinfo/odds.htm . Happy New Year. David. ... From:...
Arden, David
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Jan 3, 2006 7:53 am
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Dear friends, Hope all of you are having a good beginning to new year. I needed some help in terms of these two terms. People Impact Analysis (PIA) & Iterative...
Simran, The Iterative Business Process Decomposition is the way you take a business process (usually an existing one) apart. It involves peeling a business ...
Can you put these terms into "plain English" so we'll know what you're writing about? ... John Glenn, MBCI Business Continuity Planning is Business Survival...
With all the doom and gloom that goes part and parcel with Business Continuity, i was wondering if any of you have any weird or funny stories related to the...
In one IT company that handles the outsourced information systems for one of our biggest retail companies; I recently walked past the Computer room in which...
One of the best I have experienced was when I worked for a well known High Street Bank in the UK. We received a phone call from the post room one day before...
Hi all I am currently looking into some training for our post room on suspicious packages and also for my directors / senior managers on Kidnap & Hostage. Does...
In a message dated 09/01/2006 08:29:37 GMT Standard Time, deonbin@... ... In this particular case, the optimist at the scene was the one who thought the...
Reminded me of a company I worked for. Located on the first floor of an old manufacturing office space, during very heavy rain storms water trickled down the...
I remembered a funny (weird??) story that happened some years ago. We had a problem with a branch's server. So, we asked the branch's manager to send us the...
Hi all, I am looking for 3rd party suppliers of workspace recovery in the following: 1) Czech Republic 2) Slovakia 3) Poland Can anyone offer some feedback on...
Pete I don't mean to be unforthcoming but you don't really need one! All you need is Draw facility in Word or Excel or there is Visio and you can easily set...
Simran, Just to add, People Impact analysis would be primarily on the impact "to" and "of" people in case of Crisis. Take a BPO example...what will be the ...
deepak chawla
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Jan 10, 2006 8:44 am
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Having clients in various industries, I prefer to identify PIA using the fire scenario. Across most industries (tiny to global), their executives appear to...
Gary, If I understand your question . . . I had a client which had an arrangement with a national retail chain to use space in each of the chain's major...
First, Happy New Year to all. I have been absent from the list for some time due to far too many professional and personal commitments in 2005, but I cannot...
Not sure these are that funny but here you go, hard learning experiences in running tests and not thinking wide enough about the planning. My first few big 3...
http://www-1.ibm.com/services/us/bcrs/html/worldwide.html IBM may have some. SunGard looked to be a no. http://www.pwcglobal.com/pl/eng/about/svcs/cfr/brs.html...
Hello All, Does anyone have any good Continuity Checklists out there? Basically something that you use to cover all the questions you need answered. I know we...
The list of weird and funny stories is very entertaining - keep them coming; maybe they should be collated into a "How not to..." book? My story falls into the...
John Mayor
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Jan 11, 2006 7:50 am
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Hi Tim. It is getting harder to schedule testing with all that is going on...what with father's day. mother's day, xmas. boxing day, new years, easter,...
Hi Anthony, I had a similar problem with scheduling tests until I adopted a "harder" attitude, stating that the tests will take place on the specified...
John Mayor
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Jan 11, 2006 9:14 am
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Also try to avoid scheduled upgrades, product launches managed changes senior managers holiday or birthdays or weekends away, the Olympics The commonwealth...