On Friday, Jeremy Hunt suggested that ‘the UK has been dealing with economic headwinds caused by a decade of black swan events’, but what is a black swan event? Black swan events are referred to more and more frequently, yet do people actually understand what these are? Jeremy Hunt vs Nassim Nicholas Taleb Lets look …
It is interesting to note the number of searches for ISO 27001 pdf, or even the number of searches for a free version of the standard. This presents some interesting questions and considerations, not least those of ethics! Regardless of the fact that most ISO standards are derived by a group of volunteers, the copyright …
Delighted to find that my article, ‘Business continuity and operational resilience – how different are they really?‘, listed on the Continuity Central site has been listed as the 7th most read article of 2022 Business continuity and operational resilience – the article The article comments on the Operational Resilience Report 2022, which was published recently …
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The latest in our series of blogs about lessons that can be identified from Volume 2 of the Report of the Public Inquiry into the Attack on Manchester Arena on 22nd May 2017. The following are points raised from the first volume, and highlights some additional lessons that should be observed in Crisis Management and …
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Volume 2 of the Report of the Public Inquiry into the Attack on Manchester Arena on 22nd May 2017, focussing on Emergency Response, has been published. The Manchester Arena Inquiry report is a lengthy tome, with Part 1 coming in at 716 pages. I can only claim to have read the first half of the …
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Volume 2 of the Report of the Public Inquiry into the Attack on Manchester Arena on 22nd May 2017, focussing on Emergency Response, has been published. A lengthy tome, with Part 1 coming in at 716 pages, I can only claim to have read the first half of the first volume, but it proves stark …
23 years ago today 31 people died and over 250 were injured when two trains collided at Ladbroke Grove. First and foremost our thoughts are with the many people who are still affected by the accident years later. As well as being one of the worst train crashes in Britain over the last few decades, …
Waking on Sunday morning I imagine that many people felt the same sense of terrible shock and sadness that I did at the news of mass fatalities at a football match in Malang, Indonesia. Unsurprisingly, amidst the outpouring of grief, there have been many calls to learn lessons from the tragedy. This would seem to …
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It’s always an exciting day at Cambridge Risk Solutions when the Uptime Institute’s Global Data Centre Survey is released, and this year is no exception! This year’s survey presents a nuanced picture, where the incidence of outages appears to be falling but the cost of outages continues to rise. The headline figure of data centre …
