Millennium bug ‐ are you solving the right problem?

Abstract

Asserts that the “millennium bug” debate generated by UK Government activity, PR and media activity is at last gathering momentum. Enlightened business people are already well down the track of preparing their companies for potential problems. However, the more sceptical, ill‐informed or ostrich‐headed are still looking for an easy way out, if they are looking at all. They are being selective in the message they choose to hear and minimalist in the solutions they adopt. This is building a significant problem. One of the results of these circumstances is that advertisements that promise a “total confidence” solution through the purchase and use of a simple floppy disk are grasped and believed in a literal sense. In reality these “solutions” while valuable, are at best only partial. At worst, relying on this alone could put an organisation into a terminal risk situation. Suggests an “enterprise‐wide” or “business process” solution ‐ based on the risk exposure unique to the individual business.

Citation

Rostron, S.G. (1999), "Millennium bug ‐ are you solving the right problem?", Logistics Information Management, Vol. 12 No. 3, pp. 259-264. https://doi.org/10.1108/09576059910268850