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Roberta J. Witty
Research VP
11 years at Gartner
33 years IT industry

Roberta Witty is a research VP in Gartner Research, where she is part of the Compliance, Risk and Leadership group. Her primary area of focus is business continuity management and disaster recovery. Ms. Witty is the role specialty lead for… Read Full Bio

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Have You Had Your Swine Flu Tonic Today?

by Roberta J. Witty  |  January 12, 2010  |  8 Comments

My local ACP meeting had a great program today – Don Byrne from North River Solutions provided an update on the PS-Prep program, the differences between the three proposed standards – NFPA 1600-2007, ASIS SPC.1-2009 and BS 25999 and all the machinations of getting a program through the ANAB accreditation process.

I ALSO had the pleasure of trying a new refreshment: Swine Flu Tonic from Avery Soda in New Britain, CT.  It’s a hoot!! The label says “I Survived Swine ’09.”  A very flavorful lemon and ginger concoction that doesn’t provide any medicinal value (says so right on the label); rather it does provide some levity on a topic that continues to get some bad press and resignation – JUST because many of us followed all the rules put out by the CDC, Gartner and others.

Don’t you find it interesting that when an event turns out to be a bust, no one thinks it’s because we took as much action as we could to mitigate the risk?

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  • 1 Have You Had Your Swine Flu Tonic Today? | A2Z Of Web   January 12, 2010 at 8:27 pm

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  • 3 Swine Flu   January 13, 2010 at 7:27 am

    More countries continue to off load their swine flu vaccine reserves as the pandemic winds down.

  • 4 Andrew Chroninger   January 13, 2010 at 2:03 pm

    Yes I do find it interesting…kind of like the way the Y2K “non-event” is remembered. Those of us in the trenches working for months to fix the dates in systems were glad it turned out well, but it was far from a “non-event.”

  • 5 jewelry   May 2, 2010 at 5:55 am

    More countries continue to off load their swine flu vaccine reserves as the pandemic winds down.

  • 6 jewelry   May 2, 2010 at 5:57 am

    Yes I do find it interesting…kind of like the way the Y2K “non-event” is remembered. Those of us in the trenches working for months to fix the dates in systems were glad it turned out well, but it was far from a “non-event.”

  • 7 Karen Jones   May 11, 2010 at 12:22 pm

    My own research has found that business cointinuity is being pushed to the more junior members of an organisation and no-one is aware of who has responsibility when things go wrong. is that true for your organisation?

  • 8 Jason Freeman   June 1, 2010 at 12:04 am

    I agree with Karen’s comments and research; we’ve also noticed this worying trend.