rkillings May 13, 2011:

You may have been thinking of … "telephone tree", but that's too quaintly old-fashioned and technologically dated (with a computer, you don't need a tree structure).

French2English (asker) May 13, 2011:

I think... ...notification chain is the most likely term in this context, although I don't think it was the term on the tip of my tongue... so goodness knows what that was! Thanks to all contributors...

French2English (asker) May 12, 2011:

AllegroTrans: Well, it is talking about procedures to manage a business which could cease to operate in certain conditions...fire, flood, etc. in fact, anything that could render normal business activities impossible. More context (see point d):

2. ANALYSE ET RECENSEMENT DES MOYENS

A) Phase d’analyse des besoins, identification des taches devant être assurées et sous quelle délai.

a. Préservation des actifs sous gestion, deux cas de figure :
i. Biens non affectés par le problème ;
ii. Biens concernés par le problème.

b. Préservation des documents (papier ou pdf)

c. Préservation des fichiers informatiques et infrastructures des serveurs

d. Préservation des personnes (chaine d’alertes), recensement des personnes clés.
- dirigeant, membres du Comité Exécutif
- asset managers / gérants
- titulaires de délégations de paiement

e. Respect des obligations administratives (impôts, fournisseurs, moyens de paiement etc.)

AllegroTrans May 12, 2011:

Text Can you provide the whole sentence please - there are a number of possibilities. Is it a physical "alarm system" or the set-up within management, or something else? We need some context to go on.
Thanks!