Simon

Cumbria

IT

Marc Yacht is right to call for a more measured attitude to Avian Flu, but that misses the point of the article. As hinted at the end of the article, too many companies equate business continuity to "IT keeps running" and forget about all the other stuff that a business needs to keep going. I know that approach first hand having been on the receiving end of "it's an IT problem, you deal with it" from management - I don't work there any more !

I've seen first hand the effect on a business when key people are not available. Last year I lost some friends in a plane crash and the effect on their businesses was very significant. They had a number of interests, and some of them were simply wound up as it wasn't possible to continue with the loss of all their key people.