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… just Gold

Today I want to introduce you to a (relatively) new blogger in the resilience space. There seem to be too few seeking to expand understanding and learning in this space, so always good to have new thinking being published. Charley Newnham is writing her dissertation for a MSc in Resilience at Cranfield University (UK). Her […]

… measuring resilience

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 […]

… explore vs exploit – resilience as learning.

To be resilient requires that we be open to new ideas. That has been a message in a number of the posts in this series, including  the previous post discussing the Hamel & Valikangas article. Here is a new idea – resilience can mean different things in the Strategic, Tactical and Operational contexts of an […]

… the quest

Today I am reviewing one of the earliest, and certainly one of the more influential, articles describing the concept of resilience as it applies to organisations. Despite being almost 8 years old, this paper still offers some interesting insights into the concept of resilience for the contemporary reader. “The Quest for Resilience” by Gary Hamel […]

… Australian Government position on resilience

Recently the Australian Government, through it’s Resilience Expert Advisory Group (REAG), published a position paper about Organisational Resilience with particular reference to critical infrastructure. The membership of the REAG is drawn from academics, government and private enterprise. The group grew out of the Trusted Information Sharing Network for Critical Infrastructure Protection, when the group was […]