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When a drip becomes a flood: Lessons learned from Target Corporation’s first large-scale business disruption

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  • Hirsch, Kimberly D.
  • Strawser, Bryan E.

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Business continuity practitioners routinely determine which teams in their companies are critical and undertake extensive and rigorous planning processes. But what happens when a business is faced with an unanticipated long-term disruption that primarily affects non-critical teams? How can a company use the essential principles of business continuity and crisis management in order to respond? This paper explores a 2013 business disruption experienced by Target Corporation at one of its headquarters locations caused by a leak in the water line for an ice machine. Challenges encountered and reviewed include supporting non-critical teams, leadership of a multi-week business disruption and how remote work technologies have changed traditional continuity alternative workspace solution planning. Lessons learned from this activation are presented with implications for business continuity and emergency management planning that are applicable to any industry.

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  • Hirsch, Kimberly D. & Strawser, Bryan E., 2014. "When a drip becomes a flood: Lessons learned from Target Corporation’s first large-scale business disruption," Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning, Henry Stewart Publications, vol. 8(2), pages 114-121, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:aza:jbcep0:y:2014:v:8:i:2:p:114-121
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    Keywords

    activation; disruption; remote work; resiliency; workforce planning; recovery providers;
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    JEL classification:

    • M1 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration
    • M10 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - General
    • M12 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation

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