I am looking forward to getting out and presenting at a couple of upcoming conferences. It will be good to mingle with real people at a conference after many months writing alone, and talking only to my computer while presenting webinars.
If you are planning on attending either of these, please come and say hello.
Australasian BC Summit, 5-6 June in Sydney.
Continuity, Complexity and Coevolution
In the future we will no longer be BCM, just simply BC.
This change is meant to encourage a wider discipline, encouraging the practice to grow and extend beyond the narrow confines of management systems approaches.
Perhaps we also need to widen the practice outside the limitations imposed by mainstream ‘systems thinking’. Move beyond the industrial era and its focus on engineering models.
Time to embrace complexity thinking, to learn what is actually meant by the label ‘complex adaptive systems’ – and how these are relevant to thinking about continuity, recovery and resilience.
The professional debates of the future should not be around the meaning of continuity, crisis and resilience – but about the limits we place on our own thinking and practice.
The purpose of this session is to offer a different perspective on the potential futures for both the practice and the practitioner, and by this method to stimulate thinking and debate.
In November I will presenting at the BCI’s BCM World Conference in London. This will be my first trip to this conference. The agenda is not up yet, but here is a sneak peek at my session details.
“Cyber threat” opportunity – exercising emerging threats to enhance relevance and engagement.
Cyber threats are not new. The US television series “24” featured a cyber attack in their 2005 series, Stuxnet attack on the Iranian nuclear program occurred in early 2010, and the presenter began running cyber threat simulations with Executives in 2004.
This session will outline the lessons learned from over 15 years of running Executive simulations and specific experience of using cyber threat as an Executive exercise subject. The session will encourage the use of emerging threat exercises to promote the engagement of Executive with the BC programme.
The presentation will also include a specific case study from a 2012 exercise with a public sector organization in New Zealand, highlighting how exercising cyber/emerging threats can assist in building the resilience of organisations – even those who have been through major impacts such as the Christchurch earthquakes.
This session will promote discussion around exercising as a technique, combining emerging threats that have Executive interest with the traditional BC programme and the need to employ a multi-disciplinary approach to succeed in this new world of BC.
Any thoughts or comments on the topics welcome.
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