Incident Management
DRP? BCP? If those acronyms mean a little to you, and are usually associated with plans that never seem to come to fruition, then you may want to add another acronym to that list -- IRP -- Incidence Response Plan. It's great to have a DRP and BCP -- but what's really costing you today, in the operational world, outside of disasters, are incidents. They happen all the time, and usually, the IT organization are left to handle the mess, while the business organization scream at them to hurry up. This is quite irresponsible of the business when you think about it -- it's your business! Get a handle on it! In case you haven't figured it out yet, your general IT staff and quite a few of their management don't get it -- they don't get the fact that incidents cost money. You can measure them to hell, yell at them for an eternity, but they don't get it. Incidents cost you money -- wake up, take charge, it's your money that's being burned away.
The first chef
First came fire ... and then, as the camera shifts to the soon to be late-village idiot, you're left wondering -- just what was going through that mind -- and food is put on the fire, for the first time, and cooking is accidentally discovered by humanity. The first chef is ridiculed by grunts, then the local thug tries a sample of the burnt carcass, and soon, everybody gets queued at the McDonalds drive-thru. What happened? Richard Wrangham of Harvard believes there's more to cooking than evolutionary history would have you believe. Wrangham points out that there is no way homo sapiens could survive on just raw food. Raw food just doesn't give up calories as easily as cooked food -- and raw food makes the digestive system expend more energy to get at those calories. Cooking on the other hand breaks complex molecules down, allowing the digestive system to make easy work of them -- and cooking also softens food, allowing the body to get to the calories with less effort...
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