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    In the past 30 years, resilience has evolved from a technical function within an organisation, to an essential cornerstone of any functioning organisation. Increasingly integrated within strategic exe …
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    Aritifical Intelligence (AI) has revolutionised workplace efficiency at an astonishing speed, and continues to evolve at an exponential rate. As regulation struggles to keep pace with progress, and ma …
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    The future will bring greater physcial risks to our built environment, but increasingly accurate long term climatic models and sophisticated construction materials provide an unique oppotunity to engi …
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    Resilience has evolved from a technical approach to reduce property damage and business interruption, into an all-emcompassing culture that forms a critical layer of corporate defence. The most epheme …
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    Effective Business Resilience requires strong administrative controls on processes, and the ability to identify weaknesses, errors and external factors that can impact efficency. From industrial proce …
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    Investment in personal resilience both in the workplace and communities has one of the highest returns on investment: it saves lives, reduces the impact of disasters on property and assets, and assist …
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    Can you truthfully answer these questions: 1) How good  - from one to ten -is my business resilience? 2) How good does it need to be? 3) What are the priority gaps that I need to address to ensure tha …
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    Powered by AI, mass investment, education, and government support, information technology is moving at an unprecendented pace of progress. From real world quantum capability, to seeding socio-politica …
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    Population growth, at both a global and local level, requires strategic residential and infrastructure planning on the grandest scale. Good resilience ensures that exposure to natural hazards, transpo …
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    The past decade has seen a wave of regulatory and legislative requirements around risk, resilience and adaptation planning  - forcing organisations to adopt measureable practices that stand up to exte …
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    Innovation is accelerating at breakneck speed, as computing power, connectivity,  power efficiency and smaller mechanical parts allow for unprecented intelligence, motility and durability in new inven …
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    Whether you are developing resilience solutions for the private or public sector, there is a harsh reality that all programmes face resource and budget realities. This is even more pronounced in chall …
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    Good risk and impact analysis is critical to informing proportionate resilience and adapatation planning, and this is especially the case for long term physical risks planning associated with climate …
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    There are three types of failure that lead to significant resilience failures. Failure of information, failure of process, and failure of imagination. Failures of information and process can be fixed …
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    The business of insurance is quality risk data, using powerful analytics to ensure that whilst the financial burden of an incident is transferred, it is within careful calculated margins of profitabil …
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    The KPIs that are typically used to assess the quality of resilience tend to focus on the easy to measure, and historical performance  - typically at the number of incidents, alignment of plans to man …
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    All customers are juggling the competing requirements of supply chain cost, resilience and sustainability. As many organisations have found out, any fragility in the supply chain is most likely to be …
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    In the past 30 years, resilience has evolved from a technical function within an organisation, to an essential cornerstone of any functioning organisation. Increasingly integrated within strategic exe …
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    It is hard to think of any incident response that was not improved by earlier warnings,  whether through using increasingly powerful techniques to understand and interpret risk, or the tools and commu …
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    When it comes to resilience, the public sector is from Mars and private organisations are from Venus. This presents a serious problem when your are trying to solve problems on planet Earth. The benefi …
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    If the CFO doesn’t value your organisational resilience programme,  then you don’t have one. Selling resilience to the money men requires more than reporting operational performance, it requires quant …
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    One of the great criticism of the Sendai framework is that its grand scale does not really translate to resilience and better disaster risk reduction on the ground. But is this really fair? As the his …
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    When resources and budget are constrained,  it generates innovative thinking to solve problems. In emerging nations, this can take the form of creative usage of existing materials, or by embracing new …
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    Great leaders plant acorns knowing that they will sit in the shade of the oak tree. So it is with adaptation, where long term risks are assessed and mitigation initiated years, or even decades, before …
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    The increase in physical risk due to ever more volatile weather events is a generational challenge. But effective resilience and adaptation planning requires accurate risk projections, and the ability …
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    Organisations are generally good at monitoring and preparing for a gradual descent into conflict situations; reducing headcount, mothballing operations, redefining supply chains and investment. Giner …
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    Any effective resilience programme is sandwiched between strong governance, and an audit program that gives reliable, objective assurance that key KPIs are being met. This can be a laborous and incons …
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    Recent years have seen a significant change in Business Resilience (BR) as a organisational  function  - as the function has grown exponentially, generating a human capital to meet the skills gap. Bus …
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    Whether you are seeking to attract funding from public or private bodies, the challenge remains the same. Investors do not want to risk their money on organisations that don’t take resilience and cont …
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    Whatever legislative and regulatory environment you operate in, there are two common requirements - firstly that you understand your risks, and secondly that you have in place effective systems for ri …
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    Since man first stared at the skies and marvelled at the clockwork of infinite physics, humans have been fascinated with our relationship outside the immediate surface of the planet. In the last hundr …
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    Every organisation has unique objectives, risks,  values, operations and geographical scope that require an equally unique resilience function. There is no one size fits all, and even within the resil …
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    Broadly speaking, there are two drivers for better resilience and adaptation  - the carrot and stick. The carrot looks at the positives that resilience can bring to your people, environment, operation …
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