business continuity/ disease

business continuity- preparing/planning for when/ how a company will resume or continue on either an entire unit or as a partial unit.



Disease: isolation- the complete separation from others of a person suffering from contagious or infectious disease; quarantine. (websters)

Quarantine-a period, originally 40 days, of detention or isolation imposed upon ships, persons, animals, or plants on arrival at a port or place, when suspected of carrying some infectious or contagious disease. (websters)

starbucks.

It was a chaotic time in our history...for everyone...especially those who were in the front lines and saw their city fall to peices from arm length vs. those of us seperated by miles seeing the devestation from a television screen in our comfy living rooms. When a Starbucks associate sold a bottle of water to a paramedic, news media jumped on the oppertunity to strike at the value driven corporation...the water as well as coffee was ment to be a donated treat for all of those participating and helping in the cause of 911. When word hit that a water had been sold rather donated the president of the starbucks company immediatly apologized, not only to the paramedic directly but also through a pr release. NYC starbucks even remained open throughout this difficult time while all other Starbucks across the nation where temporarily closed. I belive that this was their true misstep... to have the stores still up and running. if employees and managers where so dedicated to work they should have had voulnteers set up shop near the devestation areas in NYC, not continuing to have the NYC stores open for business.

homeland security

The homeland security advisory system is a color coded system on a 5 level monitor. Its specifically designed to keep people aware and on alert about a terrorism probability. This monitoring system has many divided....some seeing it as a positive way to keep us informed while others view it as an unnecisarry worry wart. It conists of different color codes starting from green( low) to red (high) which can easily be communicated through officials. Officials have communicated to the public to store up to 3 days of food, having emergancy kits, ect ect. This awareness caused confusion and chaos instead of the intended comfort of knowledge. This panic across the nation caused congress to look into homeland security practices...even scolded the institution...but within days homeland security had started another panic all over agian.

homeland security website: our free society is vulnerable.
formulate security plans to give accurate information.
develope and facilitate barriers.
creation of allies.
pooling national resources.
understanding the countries vulnerability.
federal,local, and state governments participation.
admission of lacking proper coorperation and facilitation.
vague and conflictiong information givin to state and local govs.
no assurance to make sure all information is going where it needs to go.
uniform method.
collabortation between private and public.