In my spare time I coach basketball. There are a lot of skills we seek to develop in our athletes, one of these is Agility. It is also an important skill for an organisation to develop to become resilient. Just for something different, let me offer a couple of dictionary style definitions to start. These […]
… redundancy does not equal resilience
Redundancy is one of the things that an organisation must invest in if it serious about the journey to resilience. However, they are not the same thing. Redundancy is essential in the Technology space (in terms of the People, Process, Technology model). And I would include most of a firm’s Infrastructure into this category. Particularly […]
… laying the foundations.(Part 1)
Today I thought I would start to lay the foundations of my own thinking on this subject. Previously I have posted about the work of the Resilient Orgs project in New Zealand and some aspects of the High Reliability school. I don’t see a lot of value in offering one of the dictionary definitions as […]
… the first 10 days.
This is my 10th post, so perhaps a time to reflect on the very short history of this blog and my experience in getting started. Sitting down to write something every day, with no certainty that anybody will ever read what is written, is a little daunting. I have been heartened by the responses and […]
… a pre-Pandemic world
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 […]