Last week I was honoured to learn that I had been made a Fellow of the Business Continuity Institute. I am very proud of the recognition, and it was something that I had been focussed on for the past few years. A goal achieved. The Fellowship interview was unexpectedly stimulating – a very positive part […]
… conversations realised
Great day (and evening) at the Australasian BC Summit yesterday. In keeping with the quality and variety that has become the mark of this event there was a good range of speakers and topics on offer. The keynote presentation from the ABC’s Ian Mannix was a great start to the day. Ian shared insights into how people […]
… conversations are central to resilience, and continuity.
This is not a new idea, I wrote about the value of conversations over two years ago, and The Cluetrain Manifesto is 15 years old. Sometimes we just need to be reminded of the things we already know. For me that reminder came in the form of my recent visit to Continuity Insights Management Conference in […]
Counting the costs … the parallax perspective
The technical definition of Parallax “is a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight”(Wikipedia). It can also be used as a means to determine distance since nearby objects have a larger parallax effect when observed from different positions than more distant objects exhibit. In simpler terms it means […]
… getting their attention
Hopefully I have your attention! The new issue of Continuity Magazine is available, which includes an article I wrote entitled “Getting their attention”. It is about the nature of Executive exercising and the benefits that can flow from expanding our focus, embracing something different and exercising emerging threats – rather than the same old, tired, scenarios and […]