Actually it has been over for a couple of days, but I have just gotten around to writing about it. This was by first visit to the World Conference on Disaster Management. It is probably the best event in this field that I have been to – I would certainly want to go again next […]
… 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 […]
… competence and disclosure (Part 2)
In the first part of this series I talked about the path from blissful ignorance to ‘Unconscious Competence’ – and how that could be applied to thinking about BCM and Resilience. The focus of this post is about using a different model to explore how we can learn more about ourselves and our professional programs. […]
… competence and disclosure (Part 1)
This post was inspired by a comment that Chris Miller made on my post about non-routine risk. I had used the term ‘unconscious competence’ to describe a mode of risk management that we all practice – dealing with risks such as crossing the road and the like. Things that we can do competently without having to […]
… 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 […]