Genius Emergency Preparedness

[SuzukiGirl1]

Okay, so I'm part of a team of people in my office that develop our Business Continuity Plan...what to do in emergency situations to get our business back up and running again as quickly as possible.

They handed out these flip chart cards that we are supposed to keep at our desk.

One section is called "Preparing for Emergencies". One suggestion they have is to obtain a "radio with a hand crank to generate electricity"

I just have to chuckle at this because 1. I've never seen such a thing nor would I know where to get one, and 2. I just have this horrible visual of me sitting there turning this handcrank for all it's worth!!

Just thought I'd share...

[inspiron]

Just because you asked ... http://www.hammacher.com/publish/65939.asp

I have had some experience with disaster preparedness projects ... one thing that the IT people always seem to do is planning to get the computer-room back up a.s.a.p., but they neglect to plan for the client recovery. Since I work in for the pharma industry, there is always the danger of contaminating a building, which would mean that hundreds of PCs would no longer be available. In that case, you need to have a contract with a manufacturer that they can pump up production and deliver a truckload of machines in a few hours, then have the systems in place to set them up with your company standard environment and application portfolios.

Hope this helped in some way

[SuzukiGirl1]

Yes, we also have a "drop shipment" of pc's etc set up. Do you have a "hot site" that you would relocate to in the event of a long term need?

[inspiron]

No need, really. The big phamaceutical companies here in Basel are so well spread out across the city, that they would just move the people to another company location within the city.

[Louis]

Handcranked AND solar radio:

http://www.leevalley.com/gifts/page....ncy=1&SID=

[Trapper]

To go with the solar flashlight

[LayinLo]

Originally Posted by trappercase

To go with the solar flashlight

That great!!!!





She's wondering if they come in yellow. hint hint

[c50tiger]

Originally Posted by trappercase

To go with the solar flashlight

sorry SG1, but

[LayinLo]

Originally Posted by c50tiger

That smiley is priceless!!!!!!!!!!!1

[c50tiger]

Originally Posted by LayinLo_usmc

That smiley is priceless!!!!!!!!!!!1

I gotta give credit to trapper... I followed the url from one of his posts to the metriccruisers forum and stole it from there. I crack up everytime I see this one, too....

[LayinLo]

dancing granny smilies!!!!!!!!

[Trapper]

My secret is out.

[c50tiger]

Originally Posted by trappercase

My secret is out.

well - wouldn't be necessary if SOMEBODY would add a few more smilies in this forum

[TL chris]

Here ya go SuzukiGirl http://www.windupradio.com/solar/flashlight.htm

OR

A little more to the point. http://www.solarnature.com/flashlights/solflash.html

[inspiron]

Originally Posted by SuzukiGirl1

Yes, we also have a "drop shipment" of pc's etc set up. Do you have a "hot site" that you would relocate to in the event of a long term need?

Getting the hardward replaced is just the first step - have you also thought about the configuration? Most manufacturers will pre-load the machines with a standard image (Windows XP, Office XP Professional) but you still have to install a bunch of stuff yourself - virus protection, browser plug-ins, business applications, etc. If you have 400 pcs to replace, you can estimate a good person-year of effort before the machines are back up and running. Here, a person-year is between CHF 200'000 and CHF 250'000 ... and that's just effort - no hardware, software licenses or anything else.