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… uncertainty and resilience

March 25, 2010 By 3 Comments

This is my presentation (at least the slides part) from the BCI Summit in Sydney today.

When I have some time I may take up Jan Husdal’s suggestion to develop some form of webinar. I assume that was Jan getting me back for highlighting new research for him to review!

The key message is this – if we want to make our organisations resilient we need to do a couple of things;

  • First and foremost change our thinking.
    • Resilience is not something we already have with a different name
    • It is not rebranding BCM (or Risk)
    • It is more Art than Science
  • It is only relevant (and can only be given meaning) within the context of your organisation
BCI Summit Sydney 2010

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Happy to field virtual questions via the comments.

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  • http://www.husdal.com/ Jan Husdal

    Since I was mentioned in this post, I'd better comment on it, not? The webinar idea was simply to make the presentation more interesting, i.e. listen to you speak while watching the slides in real time. I really liked the 2nd last slide on Art and Science. I could not fully relate to the classifications used, but what the difference in what was in the boxes made perfect sense. Resilience is not about being rational, many times it is about being ir-rational, because the solution to the BC problem at hand is often not found in advance, but at the spur of the moment, improvised and contingent upon the situation. Anyway, great presentation.

  • Ken Simpson

    Thanks Jan, the issue of more Art and less Science was really the key take away.

    The statements that went with that ran something like this – if you want to do something with resilience and make it work – then we need to change our thinking.

    Thus far we have moved from IT-oriented DR Planning, to BC Planning, to BC Management and the next big thing is people talking about resilience.

    Too many people simply took a pen, crossed out the job title on their business cards and wrote in the new one. They didnt change their thinking or what they did.

    Too many people are still doing IT DR and calling it resilience.

    Anyway, I started recording the audio last night and should have the presentation ready to go as a webcast after Easter.

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