Saturday is effectively a lost day again as I travel back to Australia, with a couple of hours to kill on the ground in Dubai, after the BCI World Conference.
Despite not yet getting home from this trip I am already planning the next one. I will be adding another of the major industry conference to my comparison list next year.
I am pleased to say that I will be heading to New Orleans (USA) in April 2014 to present at the Continuity Insights Management Conference, – my thanks to the good folk at CI for the invitation.
The theme of the conference is “Resilience revisited” and my session is titled “Build Real Resilience By Adapting Agile Practice”.
This is a topic that I foreshadowed during my presentation at the Australasian BC Summit in Sydney earlier in the year. It will look at what BC can learn from the Agile movement – a mode of thinking that grew out of software development and is increasingly found in other disciplines such as marketing and project management.
So many stories that highlight the attributes of resilience emerged from the response of New Orleans to Hurricane Katrina. A remarkable outcome given they had no international standards or ‘Best Practice’ guides for resilience to follow – or perhaps it is because they had no such documents.
This session revisits the concept of resilience and highlights that it was not originally coined by the BC profession and Executives do not generally see resilience as a result of the efforts of BCM.
Highlights lessons from the Agile community that can be applied to BC and building resilience.
SUMMARY:
New Orleans presents the perfect opportunity to revisit the true concept of resilience – given that many of the stories highlighting the attributes of resilience flowed from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Perhaps this is because they had to learn to adapt rather than prevent/prepare according to “resilience standards”.
Resilience is created by trust, not compliance and governance processes. The concept was not originally derived from the BC industry – nor do Executives generally see resilience as another name for BCM, nor do they see it as the result of the efforts of BC practitioners.
Attendees will be challenged to think differently about their current BC practices and offered new approaches, such as lessons BC professionals can learn from the Agile community to enhance their current practices and improve engagement with Executives. Takeaways include examples, from the presenter’s experience, of the application of agile practices to BC.
This session offer attendees an international, Executive perspective on the concept of resilience and the emerging movement from risk anticipation and mitigation to ‘risk adaptation’ as a source of resilience.
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