Welcome to my blog – it is a blog for thinkers and innovators who are interested in crisis management, crisis and incident leadership, organisational resilience, business continuity, disaster and related risk topics. My goal in writing this blog is to crystallise thoughts on interesting topics and have open conversations. I welcome comment – please go for it or contact me. Views expressed on these pages are my own.
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ISO 22316 organisational resilience, coping capacity and ‘anti-fragile’ – taxonomy
September 06, 2017
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Resilience is a word of the moment, it crops up in the UN, WEF and government. The introduction of the British Standard, BS65000:2014 and the ISO 22316:2017 has prompted debate around the concepts in these documents. This post, therefore, provides some thoughts on organisational resil
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BREXIT calls for scenario planning NOW
February 29, 2016
In the UK we are now plunged into a crisis in the operating environment (a macro risk) and whatever your feelings are on the subject, the UK is set on a path to the 23 June 2016 yes/no referendum. The question for commercial organisations is what are the impacts of in or out? How shou
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Crisis management – mind the gaps: requirements v accepted practise v appetite
December 09, 2015
The problem for crisis management preparation for major organisations put in simple terms is that the world has changed significantly in recent times. Change is accelerating and the executive management appetite to prepare for crises and what is known as ‘accepted’ practice is not ali
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March 19, 2015
There is a very informative TED talk on beating Ebola by Bruce Aylward (albeit recorded in Dec 14 – I have just found it) – you can see his profile on the TED site. If you are interested in this topic then this is definately worth watching. Dr Aylward says there are 4 stra
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Why intervention is critical – for effective crisis and incident management – Ebola – what can we learn? Part II – Business continuity
February 24, 2015
Following on from the Ebola blog Part I, here are some comments on 7 issues which surface from the case study. Each issue has a corresponding observations relevant for the BCM, crisis or security leader. However, these issues range from being positive to negative on a highly subjectiv
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Why intervention is critical – for effective crisis and incident management – Ebola – what can we learn? Part I Context
February 23, 2015
There is no avoiding stating the obvious that discussing a high mortality disease which leads to a very horrible death is scary and unpleasant. If you have a low threshold for the unpleasant then skip this post now. Ebola meets the criteria of a ‘dread risk’. That is a risk that “has
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The difference that uncertainty makes in crisis management
November 20, 2014
The BS11200 definition of crisis is: “an inherently abnormal and unstable situation that provides a threat to an organization’s strategic objectives, reputation or viability” The critical words being the threat to strategic objectives i.e. it impacts on business strategy and viability
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Resilience: organisational BS65000, business and people – thoughts
July 13, 2014
The use of the word ‘resilience’ is definitely on the rise in the UK business and government community. It is also used in many conversations about business continuity (and in the accepted BCM definition). I thought I would unpack some aspects of this word related to busin
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Crisis and continuity March 2014 – not a ‘normal’ month
May 21, 2014
Looking back through the diary, March 2014 was not a normal month of crisis and continuity events. Every month there are ‘surprises’ and new twists and turns but in March the dominant event was Ukraine. By any standard the events and story are extraordinary with many stakeholders, pos
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