The fourth in a series of reports by David Davies analysing the experiences of those involved in a computer disaster |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK;2. International Network for Civil Development, 41a Tianeti St., Tbilisi, Georgia;1. Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies, Italian National Research Council, Address: Via Palestro 32, Rome, Italy;2. Former IOM, 17, Route des Morillons, 1211 Genève, Switzerland;3. Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR), University College London (UCL), South Wing UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK;1. Resilience Innovation Knowledge Academy (RIKA), India;2. Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Japan |
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| Abstract: | One of the most fascinating of human traits is their blase approach to possible disaster. Serious road accidents are something that happens to someone else, so drivers carry on taking appalling risks at high speed. In corporate terms management takes a similar approach to disaster, and computer disasters are no exception. “It won't happen to us” or “we'll muddle through somehow” are common excuses for the absence of a disaster recovery plan. Psychologists tell us that this is because we cannot come to terms with something we have not previously experienced: we simply cannot imagine the experience, therefore it has no reality as something that could affect us.In this series I am relaying the experiences of those people who have been involved in computer disasters, the lessons they have learned and the effects of the disaster on their company and on their own lives. If you are one of the great majority without a workable recovery plan, remember as you read: tomorrow this could be you! |
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