What constitutes a crisis at your company? Over the years I have seen many companies struggle with this definition. There were times, when I was younger and more energetic, that I thought that having to define what constituted a crisis was an essential part of establishing a working BC and Crisis Management capability. In most [...]
… developing resilience
October 18, 2010 By 1 Comment
Recently I read a post by Jan Husdal reviewing a reference by Sutcliffe and Vogus – “Organizing for Resilience“. If you want a review of the article read Jan’s post – my purpose here is to take the ideas down a different path. We are often presented case studies of ‘resilience’ based on the observation [...]
… benchmarking resilience
April 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
With all the air traffic disruption in Europe at the moment, perhaps it is timely to have a new tool we can use to benchmark our levels of resilience. The Resilient Organisations Research Program at the University of Canterbury have just released a report on the use of their Benchmarking tool in the Auckland Region of New Zealand. The [...]
… non-routine risk and resilience
March 3, 2010 By 5 Comments
Recently I have been focusing more on the discipline of risk management. There has been an ongoing debate for many years as to whether BCM is a subset of RM, or vice versa. The current discussions around convergence will probably bring this issue forward yet again. This post will be the first in a series exploring the [...]
… economic resilience
February 3, 2010 By 1 Comment
In my review of the paper – Operational Framework for Resilience I mentioned a quote attributed to Adam Rose. “resilience is in danger of becoming a vacuous buzzword from overuse and ambiguity” That reference motivated me to find out a little more about this guy and what he has to say. Rose is a Research Professor in the School of Policy, [...]
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