CHAPTER 5: SELECTED SCENARIOS

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison

While there are several scenario candidate topics I could have chosen to write about in this chapter, I have selected three pet subjects of mine – media communications, ICT disaster recovery and terrorism. Strange bed fellow you may think but most business continuity plans will have to take account of at least two of them and with the number of high-profile global terrorist attacks being reported, I’ll wager that terrorism features in more BCPs than it did say a decade ago. While I have endeavoured to provide some background into each and their importance to business continuity planners, this work is essentially about how to approach ...

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