Managing the Millennium Bug
by Mike Levy and Gill Thomas

Product Details

• Hardcover: 206 pages; Dimensions (in inches): 1.00 x 10.25 x 8.00
• Publisher: Gower Pub Co; (February 1999)
• ISBN: 0566081776

Synopsis

Are you ready to face up to lost and unfulfilled orders, invoices not being issued, security systems failing, suppliers' systems malfunctioning, and product liability issues at the beginning of the Year 2000? These potential problems, if not addressed, may lay you open to cash flow difficulties, loss of customers, damage to public relations, legal exposure of the business and of individual officers - to disruption of business plans, and ever increasing and unexpected costs.

It is only too clear that the millennium bug is not just an IT problem: it is primarily about ensuring business survival and organisational continuity.

Managing the Millenium Bug and Its Implications for Your Organisation is a manager's guide, not a technical manual. It will lead you through the issues that must be faced and gives direction on how to deal with them. The book covers setting up a project team to evaluate and assess the problem for your organisation, getting project management under way, through to contingency planning, dealing with suppliers and customers, and looking at the thorny issues that could arise. Backed up with tried and tested project management materials from the National Computing Centre, this is a straightforward, jargon free and pragmatic book. It will enable you to identify what you are up against and what you can do about it, including who and where to get help from, not only in the time leading up to 31 December 1999, but long after.