December 9, 2005

A Look Back at a Disaster Plan: What Went Wrong and Right

By JOHN LAWSON

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, universities in the gulf were devastated. As hard hit as their physical plants was the information technology that touches almost every aspect of their operations. Tulane University had a disaster plan. Some of it worked. Some of it didn't. John Lawson, vice president for information technology and chief information officer at Tulane, talked about that.

Robert Burns got it right in his poem about a mouse whose nest was destroyed by a

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