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You can lead a horse to water, or a businessman to reality...
Jeff Dickey 21st Jul 2009
...but you won't always get the desired result.

Too many in the executive suite see IT as "the help", and have fallen
under the spell of "it works now, the help can always make it work,
and if they can't, we'll just get new help flown in."

As the earlier commenter noted, this doesn't reliably improve after a
disaster; too many CxOs have a deliberate and impenetrable
incuriosity about the IT systems that run their business. If anything,
this has gotten worse in the era of CRM and other "fully integrated"
systems.

Recovery takes effort by skilled professionals using needed resources
to avoid possibly lethal damage to the enterprise. An enterprise which
is managed by individuals who don't understand that the maintenance
of those skills and resources is cheap insurance for the day when a
disaster WILL come - are mismanagers, not MIS managers. "If you pay
peanuts, you get monkeys" - and good luck getting your business
back online when you need to. Companies that do invest properly are
giving themselves an exploitable competitive advantage.
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