Perhaps Tony Hayward (soon-to-be-former Group CEO at BP) had a valid point when he lamented the loss of his private life. Anybody who has been involved in a real crisis management role knows that it tends to absorb a lot of your time – most crises don’t stop for evenings and weekends. My current BAU […]
… application of BC skills to BAU
Since returning from WCDM last month I have began a new engagement with my largest client. This role involves the application of Incident Management and Control Room discipline to the delivery of a major new IT/IS change program. The program is in the final stage of a 4 year delivery cycle, and rapid response to […]
… resilience starts at home.
We all talk a lot about the importance of the “people” aspects for Business Continuity – and it is more significant to position this aspect correctly when looking at the concept of resilience. Too often it is just talk, not really backed by understanding and appropriate actions. Often we need direct involvement in a situation […]
… profession or not?
Things have been fairly hectic since my return from Toronto. A new client engagement to get started, not to mention a number of late nights watching the FIFA World Cup, have distracted me from posting here. While catching up on my reading I came across this article in Risk Magazine. The quoted comments are in […]
… WCDM is over
Actually it has been over for a couple of days, but I have just gotten around to writing about it. This was by first visit to the World Conference on Disaster Management. It is probably the best event in this field that I have been to – I would certainly want to go again next […]
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