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> But most businesses do. Ummm, for quite small values of "most" :) I have a handle on this because I set a resilience assignment to a cohort of about 20 MBAs
by nonrandomstring 3y ago
> But most businesses do.
Ummm, for quite small values of "most" :)
I have a handle on this because I set a resilience assignment to a
cohort of about 20 MBAs at a business school. Specifically I asked for
a representative range of businesses;
- fast food
- gymnasiums and sports
- nail bars and hairdressers
- auto-repair and mechanic/garages
- child and day-care
.... you get the picture, _loads_ of variety.
They did 1 hour, 12 hour, 24 hour and one week case models.
As tech people, we are probably biased to think too heavily about
digital and electronic systems. Many businesses can function in
"survival mode" during a tech outage, including electricity in some
cases.
As I recall, after "telephone", it was payment systems that were the
real killer. Interestingly many access control systems fail-safe simply
locking everyone out of the buildings!
- mjevans 3y agoYes, whomever's on call for fixing any related system should have the physical keys to open the locks. Automatically logging that and post incident reports / etc as necessary.
- makeitdouble 3y agoThose businesses need a working cashier that keeps untampered records. Not because they're inherently electronized, but because they want the convenience of it. It just makes a lot of things easier. The same way they do digital bookkeeping, not because they can't do it on paper but because it's just a pure hassle that distracts from the business. "survival mode" is just that, you can accept cash during a hurricane, and refuse it for the rest of the year when you operate nromally.