Many organizations believe that if they protect their data processing systems, stock extra supplies, train employees on basic first-aid, and try to minimize their hazards, they have done all they… Continue reading How Any Organization Can Survive Through a Disaster

Part 1 Like many major companies, Universal Studios spent over a year defining their vital business functions and making adequate preparations to protect them. This company’s business functions are different… Continue reading Disaster Recovery in the Movie Industry: MCA Inc./Universal Studios Plan

The same disaster can, and does, strike a business office, a museum, an architect’s office from time to time. The lowest level collects the water and suddenly comes the realization… Continue reading Saving the Books

Many readers may be intimately familiar with the aspects of creating plans for data processing in banking and insurance industries. This article will introduce the types of plans which are… Continue reading Disaster Recovery Planning in Electric Utilities: A Message for the Planning Consultant

We all know that a well designed and practiced contingency plan is the best insurance against financial peril for any corporation or institution with a future. As we prepare for… Continue reading Planning For Recovery In a Manufacturing Environment

In the aftermath of the April 29, 1986 and September 3, 1986 Los Angeles Public Library fires, many library owners, operators, and librarians were asking themselves what they would do… Continue reading Library Disaster Recovery Planning

As computers become increasingly integrated into the day-to-day operations of hospitals, senior managers are asking that contingency plans be in place to ensure that the required computer capacity be continuously… Continue reading Measuring the Pulse of Disaster Recovery at Bethesda Memorial Hospital

At 7:15 p.m. on the evening of November 6, 1990, a security guard on duty in the dispatch office of Universal Studios received a telephone call that would set the… Continue reading This was no special effect… Disaster Planning Works!

Manufacturing strategy is widely recognized as an integral part of a firm’s overall corporate strategy to gain and retain competitive advantages. Advances in computer- and communications-based technologies have contributed to… Continue reading Automate Your Manufacturing… But Beware of Disasters!

OVERVIEW Information processing activities is not just a recordkeeping aspect of an organization. Resources gathered via the automated information processing system is the most valuable asset a healthcare institution may… Continue reading Contingency Planning for the Healthcare Industry