Just for kicks, I thought I would consolidate some pictures, from other albums, of me at famous places and/or with famous things. Read More
Though I am seeing this change slowly in organizations across industries, most companies still separate IT disaster recovery from business-side continuity and process resumption planning. As planners, and often the IT guys realize this too, it is incredibly difficult for IT to prioritize and determine the appropriate technology investments without knowing what is important to the business… and how important in terms of quantifiable dollars-at-risk data. Read More
Over the weekend, due to compelling reasons I’ll get to later, I took a deep-dive into the two most popular online “Banking 2.0″ products: Yodlee and Mint. My overall impression: These guys really have a long way to go.
This isn’t really a review of either. Instead, it’s more of a wish-list… for what I wish either Yodlee or Mint were, but alas, they are not. Read More
First, I admit that I haven’t used Google’s Buzz much. I have it linked to my Google Reader to share articles, but that’s it. On the other hand, I’ve been using Twitter quite a bit.
Tonight I saw that Mashable posted a link to their Buzz stream, so I followed them.
And now I’m perplexed by a few questions: Why would one choose Twitter over Google Buzz, or Buzz over Twitter? And why would anyone use both? Read More
Early in my career, I worked in a manufacturing environment. And though we were not yet a disciplined SixSigma shop, we were obligated by customer requirements to conduct, on a monthly basis, 7-Step Root Cause Analysis on the top 10 issues causing downtime or product defects on our assembly lines.
I learned two important things from this process that I believe applies to business continuity and disaster recovery exercises and testing. Read More
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