Of Disaster Recovery Plan

IT life is funny. Years ago, like some of us in IT ;-), had been involved in Y2K plan !! Remember this noise about Y2K ??

Last week, I just finished our IT Disaster recovery and our headquarter (in another country) postponed it for one year, saying we're not a key element in the company, like HQ and Production and Research Lab are in its own country.

As our country here in France is in the top three of the company revenue among affiliates, it's sounds strange.


I have heard today at a seminar, an interesting idea (*) : Disaster Recovery Plan has to be seen as a company project.

Apparently they (the HQ) didn't saw this project as a company one... But did they do the same for all affiliates ? How did they evaluate the loss of France production or France selling for days or weeks on the global company revenue and health ?

Feel free to explain how you forced managers to go forward on disaster plans ?


(*) PS : other ideas from this seminar :
1 -recheck every year you plans as company life is changing, prices are moving, people and solutions are changing ;
2 - do a lot of internal and external communication about it;
3 - better a realiable plan that a theoricaly perfect plan
4 - check and update inside contacts as often as needed