Over recent weeks I have found myself talking to various people in the real world in terms of “our thinking is broken”. The context of these conversations was the need to change and improve a series of linked internal processes. Reviewing yet another “management systems standard” approach to resilience for this blog got me thinking […]
… Infrastructure resilience, UK-style
Recently the UK Cabinet Office published their guidelines on Critical Infrastructure Resilience, entitled “Keeping the Country Running: Natural Hazards and Infrastructure“. They propose building infrastructure resilience based on four components – as shown at right. Unlike the graphic, each component is not specified as making an equal contribution. It is suggested that the size/contribution of […]
… Disrupter analysis
I am always sceptical when I find articles that claim to identify or eliminate the so-called “Black Swan” events. Primarily as they appear to be derived from not having read, nor understood, Taleb’s definition of a Black Swan event. First point of definition, the event is outside the realm of regular experience and there is […]
… customers in motion?
A lot has been written in the past week about the problems experienced by Research In Motion (RIM) and their Blackberry platform. Some of it highlights significant failings in the way we approach Business Continuity. For those of you who missed the story, here is the very short version. Outage was originally experienced in the […]
… sustainable writing, 200th post
Who would have thought! It has taken 688 days (almost 23 months), but this is the 200th post on this blog. The traffic here is not yet at a point where it is slowing down the internet – limited to an average of just under 3 visitors per day, and almost 6 page views per […]
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