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Should you implement a business continuity/disaster recovery plan in 2010?

PCNS implemented one internally in 2009.
Here are our personal observations as a consumer of the “Survivor or Statistic” program:

Forget for a moment the concept of recovering from a business disruption.  Contingency planning is only a by-product of this process.   It made us a better organization.  It made me feel better about our company.  Our foundation is better.

–Our vendor management information is now centralized

–Our workplace is now safer

–We are now a better employer and a better vendor to our clients

–I found out that some things I assumed were being done were not being done. 

I could have done these things on my own, but realistically, I never would have.   As a business owner, with employees and customers depending on me, the tool we are using (Survivor or Statistic) makes me behave more like I should behave.   Mellon Bank and other huge organizations know how to behave and spend lots of money putting together their plan.  That would be an exercise in futility here…but we can do the easy stuff.   We have now done the easy stuff, thanks to the Survivor or Statistic process.