Continuity Forum - Tall Stories

Tall Stories

Wed, 17 May 2006 13:35:42 +0200

Category Business Continuity Articles - Crisis Management and BCM

Tall Stories from Peter Power

In a lighter vein we are bringing you a few stories that look at Business Continuity in a a more colourful way.

For quite a few years now we have enjoyed the writing of Peter Power in various journals and we are pleased that Peter will be writing for the Continuity Forum, sharing both his insight and humour covering issues affecting Business Continuity sector.

The first of his 'Tall Stories' articles covers a lot of ground. We'll leave the story to him but it includes political prophecies, Power, Peat Bog snorkelling, a Milan Missile, and the M25 ... What a way to start off!

Tall Stories Two December

Wed, 17 May 2006 13:29:36 +0200

Category Business Continuity Articles - Crisis Management and BCM

Tall Stories from Peter Power

The perils of Celebration

In this rather seasonal installment of Peter Powers' Tall Stories he turns his eye to Christmas and the perils of Retail Therapy. We should be so lucky, ... lucky,lucky, lucky (sorry Kylie)

It is the season of goodwill and already shop assistants are queuing up to ring the Samaritans. Just think for a minute what they have to endure. Non stop Noddy Holder telling the world "it's Chhhhhristmas…". (Ed Note: For those blessed with ignorance, Noddy is the lead singer of the Band, Slade, unfortunately for us.)

Tall Stories One

Wed, 17 May 2006 13:25:16 +0200

Category Business Continuity Articles - Crisis Management and BCM

Tall Stories from Peter Power

What the future may hold?!

The year is 2007...

Inside 10 Downing Street on the eve of the Labour Party conference, Prime Minister Peter Hain has just been on the telephone to Sir Alistair Campbell who was speaking from his office at the BBC TV Centre London.

Dianne Abbott, Minister for Resilience, comes in. “Well Dianne, I have to say something tomorrow about the proposed Business Continuity tax, but I will be in for a rough time from Lord Paxman when he interviews me later. Jeremy can be such a brute. Any ideas?” The Minister thinks for a moment, wishing that this night will be the turn of Westminster for the rolling blackout schedule to keep the National Grid from collapsing (instead it is the turn of her constituency, 20 miles away) “I think I have an idea Prime Minister. Do you remember the days before we made Alistair Director General and Tony Blair had not yet been Beatified? BC was just the flip side of Anno Domini or so we thought. I think we can still use the religious theme and get people to cough up money just as they would in a collection box”. Peter Hain looks out of his bullet proof window and peers down on an empty Downing Street. “I think that’s it. We can build up the theme that protecting organisations from suicide bombers and so on is a divine task where only those who comply will have ever lasting business - and nothing is free these days.” Could it happen I ask myself?