What follows is a workup that PreEmpt compiled from comments contributed by the North Texas Chapter of the Association of Contingency Planners. The comments were generated from an interactive presentation conducted by PreEmpt, Inc. at the September 2004 membership meeting.

To the North Texas ACP Chapter,

Here is a compilation of the responses from the group at the September ACP meeting regarding language and the usage of DR/BCP terms. Response percentages to each answer are shown in RED just to the right of the answer they apply to. 24 answer sheets were returned and the information on those sheets was used to calculate the percentages shown.

With a relatively small sampling of participants, we probably do not have enough information to make any definitive statements regarding definitions, but we certainly got some interesting results. But more than that, I enjoyed facilitating the discussion with the group and hope you did also. I had prepared 20 slides for discussion, we reviewed 10. Perhaps we can review the other 10 at a future meeting.

For those members that were unable to attend the meeting, an explanation of what follows may be prudent. Each slide was presented for discussion by the group. Following the discussion, we asked that each individual mark the answer they thought was appropriate, not necessarily what the group or anyone else thought. All answer sheets were anonymous.

Tom Weems - PreEmpt, Inc.

Observation:

The majority of responses indicate that they apply this term only to Information Technology, a traditional use of the term that is consistent with the history of the industry.

Observation:

Answer "D" had the highest percentage (42%) of any of