RE: Business Contingency Plan

[Joanie Clark <jccats@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul wrote..... 
>
>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.
>


How true... when does someone decided to throw in the towel and start over.
Depending on the type of disaster, our focus could be only on patient care.
Obviously if it's just centered around the computer room,that could be a
different story, but you are so right.  If a tornado rips through my
community, and destroys my home, I'm not sure that I'd be up for hopping on
a plane and taking care of the hospital computer needs.  I'd be more
concerned about my family and as you said restoring my life.  

I guess in our situation..... we wouldn't be "out of business", some major
health care organization would take over.

Joanie


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