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 […]
… measuring resilience
One of the subjects I have to keep dragging myself back to is this idea that to make progress on resilience we must be able to measure it. This idea of measuring was one of the key drivers behind proposing the Resilience Observatory. For those who accept that resilience is not a process, then we […]
… continuous learning, more than points on a page
BC Awareness Week is almost over, but learning is forever. It is also something that everybody needs to do – we will never know everything we need to know. We also need to take account of the onging change in our world. These days you need to relearn things every few years. Here is a […]
… awareness and learning – BCAW 2011
Business Continuity Awareness Week continues … what did you do to raise awareness, or even your own level of knowledge yesterday? Here is an interesting addition to the BCI definition of Business Continuity which you can find via the BCAW Website. “Business Continuity Management is defined as an holistic management process that identifies potential impacts […]
… the resilience observatory
A few days back Lee Spencer posted a comment on my “1 year on” post. He posed a question about the tools and techniques needed to measure resilience as an emergent property (i.e. without actually having a disaster to bring it out). It seems that Lee is not the only one feeling the need for […]