… the meaning of resilience.

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This photo was taken in an area of Australia that was devastated by bush fires a little over a year ago. The photographer’s comment on the photo is that it was a “reminder of the resilience and persistence of the bush and The Australian People.” Further to my earlier post about ‘Resilience week’, today’s post on [...]

… Resilience Week!

Over at the Agile Business Continuity blog, Paul James has declared this week Resilience Week. He will be publishing a series of posts on the subject. I look forward to reading and interacting with Paul’s work, I encourage others to do the same. At the moment many people throw these ‘word concepts’ around, often with [...]

… the perils of blog platforms

Just like any process we examine in an enterprise, running a blog is dependent on some tools and technology. And just like those enterprise tools you want to get them right first time. Sad to say, but after only a few days I found myself frustrated with the limitations of the platform I had chosen. Little things like not being able [...]

… the role of the practitioner during a disruption

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I have come to understand that being an active blogger involves as much (if not more) time, reading and reacting to other people’s posts as it does writing your own. Stoneroad’s Blog is another source of interesting thinking in the BC/DR field.  I was particularly interested in this article – “If done right, we should [...]

… are we on the wrong track with pandemic planning?

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Recently I attended a seminar on Pandemic Planning. The presenter was talking about all the standard approaches, and the need for organisations to ensure they have an adequate stockpile of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). This started me thinking – we cannot sustain these approaches to this problem. Some example numbers Let’s say you want to [...]