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The November/December 2009 issue of the BCI’s “Continuity” magazine has an article entitled “The multi-purpose BCM manager” (by Rick Cudworth and Chris Apps). These gentlemen work in Deloitte’s BC and Resilience practice. This is an interesting article that proposes a new skill set is required for BC Managers who seek to promote resilience rather than [...]
Today is a new milestone for the blog – the 25th post! Doesnt sound like a lot but it has only been 31 days – just a little short on the target of 6 posts a week. It has been challenging to create the time to read and think about what I was reading each [...]
Since my post a few days back about the vague understanding of the concept of resilience, I have been engaged in an email conversation with one of my colleagues on this subject. This conversation has been interesting as this particular colleague had not really been challenged to describe the concept of resilience and how it might [...]
A few days ago I followed a linked post from Trevor Levine’s Riskczar blog and discovered Rick Nason’s RDS Solutions Blog. Rick is writing some interesting stuff, challenging traditional thinking and practice around Risk Management. I commented on his earlier piece on the need for creativity, but felt that this post about the need to [...]
Today I am looking at another US school of thought on resilience. The 4R Resilience Framework, and the work of Michel Bruneau. These folks are coming to the discussion from the perspective of earthquake engineering, but the model can have applicability in other areas. Essentially they define resilience according to three outcomes; reduced probability of failure reduced [...]
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