Why do most companies do not have a business continuity strategy and disaster recovery measures in place?

is cost the prohibiting factor for companies to formulate a plan and be "disaster" ready? or is more the cycles spent to put one, generally speaking?
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The large companies do, especially the financial corporations, and companies that are heavily invested in IT to do business. IBM was responsible for the implementing/backup of the financial institutions in the NY Trade Center. After 9/11 those businesses were up and running 4 days after the disaster....all records were kept backed up at a secured site. Companies just do not think/realize anything will happen to them. Every government agency has a disaster recovery plan not only written, but back up measures already taken. It's not so much the cost, but the realization that something could happen. (retired IBM corp exec/former US FED/DC/ college professor)

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Because it's a pain in the butt to write them up and the people most equipped to write and implement them - engineers - are more interested in fixing problems and doing their work rather than writing documents.

Because they think nothing will ever happen to them! Keeping the head buried in the sand... I used to work for a company that had their disaster recovery plan posted on a secure website that was hosted out of state (I work in California)

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