Agile Business Continuity

17 Feb, 2009

The Emperor Has No Clothes

Posted by: pdjamez In: Thoughts

During the 2007 BCI symposium I had the pleasure of listening to a number of lectures from some eminent continuity experts as well as some rather less eminent and less expert individuals. As a former academic and student of informatics you can smell bullsh*t from some distance away. Fortunately, it wasn’t just me. During a particularly overworked presentation the women next to me sighed, turned towards me and whispered, “Is it me or is this guy full of it?”. The presentation went something like this: We’ve solved all these problems over here [we haven't], so here is a new problem [it isn't] and I’ve given it a name [he did]. So now I am the expert in this particular area, buy my book, services, whatever. Like the woman sitting next to me, I fail to see the need to find more problems to solve before we get the fundamentals right.

Related posts:

  1. BCM Intellectual Honesty

No Responses to "The Emperor Has No Clothes"

Comment Form

About

The main purpose of this site is to capture business continuity issues and share the ways in which practitioners are overcoming them.