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Citation
Hughes, A. (1999), "The Millennium Bug", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 31 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/ict.1999.03731eac.002
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 1999, MCB UP Limited
The Millennium Bug
1998, 18 minutes. Produced by The Media Partnership and available for purchase (£29.38 inc. VAT) from CFL Vision, PO Box 35, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7EX. Tel: 01937 541010; Fax: 01937 541083
Keywords: Technology, Organizations, Computers
This video, released last year, could still be a valuable reminder to companies of the risks they run if they are not computer compliant on 1 January 2000.
The video stresses that there are five crucial steps to be taken to check on computer compliance:
- 1.
Appoint a senior member of staff as programme manager.
- 2.
Make a full audit of all hardware and software, and make copies of all relevant documents which must be preserved.
- 3.
Plan a strategy to manage the audit results.
- 4.
Replace or modify procedures as suggested by the audit.
- 5.
Test the results to make sure all is in order.
This rather general guidance takes on some life when one hears the comments of senior managers in a number of organizations which have been included in the video: "smaller organizations are in the most danger"; "it is not what we fail to do, but what others in the supply chain fail to do which matters"; "without upgrades, our stock system will cease to operate - if we do not stock products we cannot sell them"; "it is not a technology issue, it is a business issue".
Alec Hughes