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Disaster Contingency Provisions within UK Local Authorities that have Downsized their Computer Facilities:
Summary of the Report
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A total of 479 senior IT and user managers
from UK local authorities took part in an extensive survey on IT downsizing and both
business and disaster contingency planning
(BCP) /
(DCP).
The research consisted of an initial paper based questionnaire containing 100 questions.
Where appropriate, questionnares were followed-up to produce twelve in-depth case studies.
These case studies fall into two types, those involving
disaster prevention
and those involving
(BCP) /
(DCP).
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| The 114 page report contains an in-depth analysis of the questionnaire together with a detailed examination of the twelve case studies. The importance of these case studies is in the lessons that can be learnt from them. |
| A total of 54 important lessons were identified. |
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The research was part of a Master of Science Degree within the Open University's Computing for
Commerce and Industry
(CCI)
program. If you want to find out more about the
Open University's Computing for Commerce and Industry
(CCI)
post graduate courses, visit the
Open University's
CCI
web page
. If you wish to look at the report's academic abstract, take a look at the abstract web page. |
The following are a few examples of the research results extracted from the report.
- Survey respondents
- Types of downsized operating systems
- Reasons for downsizing
- Level of continuity planning in downsized systems
- Faults with downsized applications
- Factors affecting downsizing
- Awareness of issues relating to downsizing and DCP
- Disaster prevension (DP) case studies
- Disaster Contingency Planning (DCP) case studies
- Lessons learnt from the research
If you want to know how to order at copy of the report, have a look at our report order web page. a copy of the Report.
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