Horizon scanning is about widening our perspectives – so why do we generally limit our scanning to risks and threats? We should also scan for novel and emerging practices that can complement, or even replace, our current Good and Best Practices. Consider this story, a new CEO is appointed to a large multi-national company that […]
… a sense of pride
Over the past 12 months I have been developing a specific piece of thinking, which goes by the title “Putting management into BCM”. It got its first airing at the DRJ Spring World in March, then a rework for the Australasian Business Continuity Summit in June. The most recent iteration is published today in The […]
… planning and preparedness are not the same thing
There is a discussion on the ‘BCM & Risk’ LinkedIn Group (sorry, but this is a members only forum – free to join), where the original question posed was; “Do you have a plan or are you being prepared? do you reckon these are two side of the coin or same but different words or […]
… resilience as a craft
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman. ~ Emile Zola I bought my wife a piece of handcrafted jewellery for Christmas. The craftsman, in this case a silver smith, had created his own design, rather than copy from somebody else’s idea. […]
… resilience is the new skill
This is the #1 lesson that management guru Rosabeth Moss Kanter offers from her observations of 2010. There are two of her 5 lessons that I think are very relevant to our discussion of resilience. In her blog post “5 Lessons from 2010 worth repeating …“, Kanter’s first lesson is; “Surprises are the new normal. […]