| Everybody agrees that having a plan for any | | | | company is to be "lean and mean" which means |
| emergency is a good idea. But when it comes to | | | | that funding for any internal program is hard to |
| justifying and selling the systematic development | | | | come by. If it was up to management, all budget |
| of a disaster recovery program, it is often very | | | | funds would go to marketing, product |
| difficult to sell that to the management level of | | | | development and distribution because those are |
| the business you work in. The reasons why it is | | | | the functions in a business that make the |
| hard to get the funding and permission to move | | | | company more money. Any manager of an |
| forward with disaster recovery are many. But for | | | | internal department like IT, Accounting or Auditing |
| the most part, it comes down to money. | | | | will tell you that there seems to be a resident |
| For any business to survive, profits have to be | | | | resentment in management that they have to |
| directed at making more profits. The goal of any | | | | spend money on those functions. |