If you recognised the reference to Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey”, well done. Stay with me and I will explain the relevance. I have been interested in the thoughts and writings of Nicholas Carr for some time – since reading his book Does IT Matter? and the related articles and debate that followed. I have […]
… how often we mistake the tool for the process.
I have been catching up with my reading over the weekend, and came across a Risk Management related blog Riskczar. This post about risk management technology caught my attention and started me thinking. How many times do we see people mistake the tool for the process, especially in areas such as Risk and BC Management? […]
… 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 […]
… Brown is the new Green!
I don’t know about you, but I cannot remember the last time I got to work a “Greenfields” client. What a shame then that so many people still treat all situations as being greenfield. Sometimes you can find that there is no real BCM Program in place, but generally there is some form of “tick in the […]
… the role of the practitioner during a disruption
I have come to understand that being an active blogger involves as much (if not more) time, reading and reacting to other people’s posts as it does writing your own. Stoneroad’s Blog is another source of interesting thinking in the BC/DR field. I was particularly interested in this article – “If done right, we should […]