Today was itil training day. At one point the teacher was talking about types of disasters in disaster recovery and he added a type that wasn't on the slide: stupid. I almost spit out my banana when he said this because it caught me by surprise.
Fires, floods, sabotage, terrorism, strikes, mass power outages: these are things that could happen to your business, but might never happen. I almost guarantee that stupid will happen, and it'll probably strike more than once. After the first case of stupid, you should evaluate the degree of stupid. Was it stupid that was just a slip up that can be fixed with more training or process to catch it, or was it unstoppable stupid - US for short.
Now US is a crafty foe. Process, reviews, or training will not prevent US. US is less of an event, and more of a permanent and final state. The best that can happen is that you remove the source of US (henceforth known is unstoppable stupid source or USS) from your organization and hope that they find work at your competitors. Actually, you should encourage them to find employment there. Now if your org is a government department, it's a little more problematic - you actually have to encourage the USS to leave the country, hopefully to a non-trade partner country.
It's funny that org's spend so much money on things that are really not likely to happen, but don't take a more active role against guarding against something with a high likelihood and high impact.
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