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Meaning of "to achieve the setup of a disaster recovery plan" (business language)

English Language & Usage Asked on December 24, 2020

From a document I’m translating:

Business Continuity
A. Managers shall ensure that procedures within their area of responsibility are carried out correctly to achieve the setup of a disaster recovery plan.
B. There shall be a documented and appropriate method to determine the impact of a disruption of the production and services of the organization following a disaster.
C. The organization shall document and implement procedures to respond to a disaster in order to recover or maintain its activities to a predetermined level.

What is the meaning of to achieve the setup of? Does it mean "in case of a disaster, managers should act properly to create the initial conditions necessary for the implementation of a (previously detailed) disaster recovery plan)"?

2 Answers

The AHD (https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=achieve) offers as its second definition of achieve:

To succeed in accomplishing; bring about: achieve a task; achieve an improvement in foreign relations. See Synonyms at perform.

In your quotation, what is being achieved is only the setting up of a plan for disaster recovery. This seems to be confirmed by the requirements to assess the damage when a disaster occurs and document the procedures to respond to a disaster.

That would be my reading, although there’s a chance your option could be what was intended.

Answered by Xanne on December 24, 2020

You have the unenviable task of translating pretentious and bloated business prose.

Managers shall ensure that procedures within their area of responsibility are carried out correctly to achieve the setup of a disaster recovery plan

Ensuring proper procedure within an area of responsibility is part of the function of a manager so hardly needs to be said.

To achieve the setup is no different from setting up.

Hence the sentence says little more than:

Managers must set up a disaster recovery plan

The following sentences - which you do not ask about - show the same self-important and ploddingly procedural approach that stultifies the adaptability and flexibility that would actually be needed if disaster struck.

Answered by Anton on December 24, 2020

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