I read a post on John Adams’ blog which I wanted to draw to people’s attention. Let me start where Adams’ finishes; “Resilience is not calculable. Unquantifiable, disputable, and disputed judgement will remain central to its pursuit.” It is becoming rare to find people thinking and writing about resilience who recognise that it is not […]
… synergy rather than convergence
I have recently been included in a Working Party initiated by the Busines Continuity Institute in the UK. This Working Party has the label ‘Discipline Mapping’ – it will focus on how a range of different disciplines can contribute to the building and maintaining resilience. A lot of the talk in this area has been around […]
… resilience starts at home.
We all talk a lot about the importance of the “people” aspects for Business Continuity – and it is more significant to position this aspect correctly when looking at the concept of resilience. Too often it is just talk, not really backed by understanding and appropriate actions. Often we need direct involvement in a situation […]
… WCDM is over
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 […]
… what’s in a name?
There have been a number of recent posts on various blogs, about the value and hierarchy of the labels and names we go by. Sometimes it appears that we are as emotional as Shakespeare’s famous “star crossed lovers”, rather than logical management consultants. The Montagues and Capulets in this case being Risk Management and Business […]
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