Today I want to introduce you to the Cynefin Framework – which offers some fascinating insights into the challenges of resilience, and some of the potential reasons why this concept is difficult to define and achieve. It continues the theme in some of the earlier posts around culture and how our world views are often […]
… crisis du jour
What constitutes a crisis at your company? Over the years I have seen many companies struggle with this definition. There were times, when I was younger and more energetic, that I thought that having to define what constituted a crisis was an essential part of establishing a working BC and Crisis Management capability. In most […]
… developing resilience
Recently I read a post by Jan Husdal reviewing a reference by Sutcliffe and Vogus – “Organizing for Resilience“. If you want a review of the article read Jan’s post – my purpose here is to take the ideas down a different path. We are often presented case studies of ‘resilience’ based on the observation […]
… benchmarking resilience
With all the air traffic disruption in Europe at the moment, perhaps it is timely to have a new tool we can use to benchmark our levels of resilience. The Resilient Organisations Research Program at the University of Canterbury have just released a report on the use of their Benchmarking tool in the Auckland Region of New Zealand. The […]
… non-routine risk and resilience
Recently I have been focusing more on the discipline of risk management. There has been an ongoing debate for many years as to whether BCM is a subset of RM, or vice versa. The current discussions around convergence will probably bring this issue forward yet again. This post will be the first in a series exploring the […]