This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Retrospective 2013Back in November 2009, at start of my blogging adventure, I wrote a post “… are we on the wrong track with Pandemic Planning?” Disappointing to see we still seem to be on the wrong track. Basically it talked about the very unsustainable ideas [...]
… another year over, and a new one just begun
January 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment
2011 brought us more evidence that we cannot predict all our risks. If you don’t believe me, check out the risk registers of News of the World/News Corp, Tokyo Electric Power Co or Pennsylvania State University and you should find the proof. Hopefully during 2012 we will start to appreciate the need for the ‘art’ [...]
… measuring resilience
June 6, 2011 by Leave a Comment
One of the subjects I have to keep dragging myself back to is this idea that to make progress on resilience we must be able to measure it. This idea of measuring was one of the key drivers behind proposing the Resilience Observatory. For those who accept that resilience is not a process, then we [...]
… the sky falling (again)
December 23, 2009 by Leave a Comment
One school of thought in BC says you “plan for the worst and hope for the best”. Sometimes that makes us like “Chicken Little” – we run around warning against the sky falling. That is pretty much what happened with Y2K – often driven by consultants who had not worked in BC before or since. [...]
… a pre-Pandemic world
November 27, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Recently I had the opportunity to see this obsession with Greenfields approaches taken to the most amazing extreme. I was asked to review an update of a client’s Pandemic Plan. The plan, like so many, is structured along the lines of the WHO’s Phases – and outlines activities that are intended to be undertaken at [...]
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