Disaster-Recovery-Planning.com is a Janco Associates, Inc. site. Janco is a management consulting firm that focuses on Management Information Systems, and in particular on the strategic application of information technology to gain competitive business advantage.  As part of our practice we create ELECTRONIC products that we create and sell via the internet.  These include:

• Salary Surveys
• Job Descriptions
• Templates for Disaster Recovery and Security
• Polices and Procedures.
• Software Tools

You can reach Janco via

• e-mail at:  Contact Janco Associates, Inc.
• phone at:  435 940-9300

We are a Nevada based corporation and have a sales offices in Utah.  If you need more information please contact us via the e-mail address above or by phone.

Our Practice

Janco has a proven approach which results in actions which lead to significant operational improvements by focusing the organization to meet top management's needs. This is accomplished by looking at the total spectrum of the business function, the technologies utilized, and the overall steps and plans which will help the organization succeed.

Janco's principals and consultants bring to the practice strong
backgrounds in data processing in a wide range of industries.
The result is the ability to apply specific expertise to unique situations.

Janco's principals have consulted since 1982. Our clients
primarily consist of Fortune 500 corporations.

• Specialized areas of Janco's practice include
  
• Electronic Books - Create network ready electronic books to eliminate paper. Improve accuracy, ease of use, and turnaround time. Reduce infrastructure costs and training.
  
• Outsourcing Reviews - Analyzing, planning, and managing the migration to third party providers of operations, network and application services  
• Information Systems Reporting - Developing and implementing methods to focus management's attention on critical data processing operational issues.
  
• Information Systems for Competitive Advantage - Assisting organizations in using computer systems and information delivery as tools to generate business and capture market share.  
• Information Systems Planning and Development - Defining direction for the management of planning, developing, and implementing automated
  business systems that complement a firm's strategic needs.  
• Internet and Intranet Web Site Design, Implementation and Management - Create Web sites for corporations and e-commerce.
  
• Data Network and Communication Planning - Developing architectures to support the use of decentralized data processing structures, including point-of-sale networks and multiple-site data entry and retrieval networks
  
• Competitive Compensation Analysis - Surveying the marketplace of
  compensation for data processing professionals, and assessing the
  alignment of compensation programs between competing organizations.

Recent projects have included

• Strategic Technology Planning
• Competitive Advantage Definition
• Competitive Analysis
• User Procedures Development and Documentation
• Information Systems Assessment and Planning Disaster Recovery Planning
• MIS Performance Metrics and Reporting
• Compensation Analysis
• Telecommunication Cost Reduction/Containment Skills
• Requirements Definition Project Management
• Risk Assessment
• Systems Development
• Electronic Books
• Critical Success Factor Analysis
• Outsourcing Negotiations and Implementation
• Balanced Score Card
• Metrics Definition
• Metrics Implementation

Current News

07/24/2008 Asia-Pacific eyes coordinated disaster relief work - The draft says the ministers told their officials to develop guidelines for relief cooperation, and to draw up a plan aimed at coordinating training for disaster preparedness among the 27 members. "There's certainly a knowledge that we ...

07/24/2008 Families Reminded to Include Pets in Family Evacuation Plan - We encourage everyone to take a few minutes while conditions are secure to plan ahead and make arrangements for their animal companions' safety in the event of natural disasters. The following are five disaster tips that you should know ...

07/23/2008 Disaster Preparedness Plan for Anyone - disaster preparedness plan When talking about disasters, it is important to consider a disaster preparedness plan. A disaster preparedness plan could really help you out in a time of need. When disasters of any sort occur, ...

07/23/2008 Large Cargo Ships Emit Double Amount of Soot Previously Estimated - The explosive population growth in Galveston County since 1983 makes it imperative that all citizens have both a well-stocked disaster supply kit and a family evacuation plan. We can’t pour enough concrete to make an evacuation through ...

07/23/2008 Austin Seniors Prepare for Disaster - Assisted Living at Home in ... - Communication after a disaster is a vital component of your disaster plan. Local telephone lines are usually overloaded in a disaster, but the long-distance lines may be working, and possibly cell sights may be down. ...

07/23/2008 City disaster plan shorts elderly: feds - Chicago emergency response and transit agency officials need to get a better grip on how to evacuate the elderly and disabled in case of disaster, a federal report found.

07/23/2008 Business Continuity Risk Assessment & Resource Allocation - Having an institution-wide Business Continuity (Disaster Recovery) Plan is a regulatory requirement for every form of financial institution. Your institution's BCP creates the foundation for your prevention and recovery efforts for both ...

07/23/2008 Disaster plan for all - DISASTER risk management is everyone's responsibility, says Pacific Island Applied Geoscience Commission's sustainable development adviser, Doctor Netatua Pelesikoti.

07/23/2008 Protecting Library & Archive Collections: Disaster Preparedness ... - Participants will prepare short assignments prior to the first session; between sessions, they will undertake additional assignments resulting in a completed disaster plan at the end of Part 2. Upon completion, the institution will be ...

07/23/2008 No Such Thing As A `Planacea' - While 48% of the nursing homes answering the survey claim either to have a specific pandemic plan, or to have incorporated a pandemic response into their overall disaster plan - there remains a huge unanswered question. ...

07/22/2008 Study: Most nursing homes don't have pandemic flu plan, but ... - Fewer than a quarter (23%) of all nursing homes have a plan for dealing with a massive flu outbreak, according to a new study. About 25% had a pandemic response as part of a broader overall disaster plan.

07/22/2008 Railway Plan for Tak to Mae Sot - The plan includes construction of a 29-kilometer (18-mile) tunnel through mountains, which will shorten the distance from Tak to Mae Sot from the current 88 kilometers (55 miles) by road to 70 kilometers (44 miles) by rail. ...

07/22/2008 Some Questions Unanswered in Disaster Housing Plan - Nearly three years after Hurricane Katrina revealed the nation's inability to house large numbers of evacuees, the Bush administration proposed a new disaster housing strategy yesterday that includes a mix of solutions tried after the ...

07/22/2008 FEMA DISASTER RELIEF PLAN STILL DISASTROUS - The Washington Post’s Spencer S. Hsu takes stock of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s already panned plan to provide housing to disaster victims. The 87-page report was submitted to Congress and state disaster relief planners ...

07/22/2008 Some Questions Unanswered in Disaster Housing Plan - ... where disaster housing is a familiar issue because of its vulnerability to hurricanes, said in a withering but typical critique, "Having to survive the disaster and then the FEMA Housing Plan may be too much to ask." ...

07/21/2008 Does your family have a disaster plan? - July is disaster education and awareness month. Red Cross officials say it's a good time for families to develop a disaster emergency plan.

07/21/2008 Disaster Recovery: Planning for failure - It is unconscienable that the previous IT Manager left with absolutely, positively, no disaster plan at all. We weren't even storing backup tapes offsite. Hell, we were doing nightly backups of changed data, then every Saturday a full ...

07/20/2008 Town meeting set on WLocks disaster plan (Journal Inquirer) - WINDSOR LOCKS — Selectmen have scheduled a town meeting for 7:30 pm Tuesday, Aug. 5, to decide if the town should enter a program that would make it eligible for federal disaster funding. Read Full Story.

07/19/2008 Disaster Plan (Unit 3) - I have chosen to address this in the plan listed below. Planning ahead of time:. The library keeps a water-resistant emergency kit in an accessible and visible place near the reference desk (the most central spot in the library). ...

07/18/2008 GENEALOGY DISASTER PLAN - Julie Miller in the Broomfield Enterprise shows you how to be prepared in case disaster strikes: LINK.

07/17/2008 Kids and Disasters... - Contact your local emergency management or civil defense office, or your local Red Cross chapter for materials that describe how your family can create a disaster plan. Everyone in the household, including children, should play a part ...

07/16/2008 School board wants clear disaster plan - The Beaufort County School Board sent the school district’s disaster recovery plan back for more details July 11, mainly because there are no back-ups. John Williams, the district’s director of school and community relations, ...

07/14/2008 Genealogy Disaster Plan - Brenda Merriman sent along a suggestion for a posting on protecting your genealogical assets. It's an article from broomfieldenterprise.com by Julie Miller, a certified genealogist, genealogy researcher, lecturer and writer. ...

07/14/2008 Julie Miller's Genealogy Disaster Plan - There is a precaution to safeguard your family history should disaster strike. I recommend creating and implementing a written genealogy disaster plan. Julie then goes on to describe her disaster plan in some detail. ...

07/10/2008 2010 World Cup football disaster plan under spotlight - Everything from screening of infectious disease and control to increased land and air traffic travel needed to be considered in the disaster management plan for the 2010 World Cup football, the department of provincial and local ...