Case Study: Business Continuity Planning :The Scientist [2006-11-01]


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Case Study: Business Continuity Planning EVALUATION: Here, a small-scale event - a fire that threatened the loss of IT - could have caused a business interruption. Other trig-ger events might include the loss of air conditioning in the lab, or the loss of one or two critical scientists or other employees (e.g., through an automobile accident, heart attack, or influenza). Most organizations don't do a very good job of identifying