Does this sound like an enterprise discipline we should be engaging with to help build resilience? Their goals are; Effectiveness, Efficiency, Agility, and Durability The discipline represents the process of translating business vision and strategy into effective enterprise change. This discipline creates and improves the models of the enterprise’s future state and the roadmap to […]
… perfection and storms
I had not been home for two weeks, so it was good to have sun and blue sky on Sunday for my walk along the beach. In the time I was away an intense storm front had passed through the region and It was interesting to see the change it had wrought on the beach […]
… Anticipation and Adaptation
Yesterday I wrote about the tension between Planning and Adaptive Capacity as a differentiator between traditional BCM and resilience. Today I am going to explore this aspect further, and start a series that will explore some other dimensions on which we could map resilience. My thinking here is informed by a range of material on […]
… what football teaches us about resilience
For the past year I have received a daily email from Google’s Alerts Service for the keyword “resilience”. It is clear from this form of very scientific research that the concept of resilience is most commonly found in sport, not business! Perhaps it is just that sports journalists are using the word more than business writers […]
… addressing concerns not ‘crying wolf’
I read an article on Continuity Central by Nick Johnson, called “ARE WE FEAR-MONGERS? BUSINESS CONTINUITY AND THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF“. I have to admit I missed the point on the first reading, as I had to read it again to understand what he was talking about. I guess my problem with understanding his […]