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Resilience (Part 2): aircraft carriers on the lawn

By ⋅ 30 April 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

In the previous article I explored resilience in the way it is described in the WEF global risk report.  It was hard to find much that distinguished it from a conventional risk management approach – listing actions against risks – apart from: a recognition that things look different at different scales – the global uncertainty […]

Resilience (Part 1)

By ⋅ 24 April 2013 ⋅ One comment

For some time it’s been a theme in meetings between risk management people and business continuity people that the world’s ills can be solved by being resilient.  Specifically, you don’t need to worry about that boring old risk profile when resilience means you can deal with anything that’s thrown at you, up to and including […]

It’s a risky world, just ask anyone

By ⋅ 15 April 2013 ⋅ 2 comments

Last week the Institute of Risk Management North West regional group held a meeting on Adapting to the Global Risk Landscape.  The intention was to talk about some of the most serious long term risks and what we should be doing about them.  There’s a write up of the meeting appearing shortly on the IRM website, but […]

Don’t worry, the end is nigh

By ⋅ 21 March 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

The next article on this site is to be about applying M Bricolage’s antifragility ideas to organisational risk management.  Not surprisingly I thought it was time to take a break for a little light amusement.  I’ve just discovered that the University of Cambridge is thinking about setting up a Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.  To my slight disappointment […]

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