Have you ever heard something like \u201cIt can\u2019t be done\u201d, \u201cIt has no use\u201d, or \u201cIt\u2019s useless if a major disaster occurs\u201d? If you implemented business continuity management, you probably did. Naturally, such an attitude would not help your project, so here are some suggestions how to handle such people.<\/p>\n
This is probably the most common one. Well, they may be right, unless you really prepared your business continuity strategy<\/a> and business continuity plans<\/a> taking into account all the possible scenarios \u2013 if you did that, then you can explain to them that you have prepared an alternative site which is distant enough to withstand any kind of disaster, that you\u2019ve made a backup copy of data, that there is a replacement for any employee in the company, that you have alternative suppliers for any critical service etc.<\/p>\n Well, unless you are a military supplier, it wouldn\u2019t matter, would it? Basically, in this kind of catastrophic scenarios, your business probably wouldn\u2019t have a purpose anymore.<\/p>\n Just pray you\u2019ll never have to use business continuity. Even without mentioning the well-known examples like 9\/11 or Hurricane Katrina, it is enough to ask \u2013 have you ever experienced a power outage? Or did your server break down? Or maybe a PC with important data on it? Have you ever heard of a building that burned down completely? It is enough to read newspaper headlines to understand that those things can happen to anyone.\u201cIf a nuclear war breaks out, it won\u2019t work\u201d<\/h2>\n
\u201cIt has no use\u201d<\/h2>\n
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