Digitalisation is in the news. Recent topics include whether Google’s LaMDA system shows sentience, and on the legal and other issues raised when robots or AI systems have agency (defined…
Category: Risk Management
Forecasts and their failings
Imagine you are driving a car. I tell you that if you continue driving the car in the same direction for a long time, at some stage you will drive…
World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2022
As usual in January, the World Economic Forum has published the results of its Global Risks Perception Survey (GRPS). For this, the 17th annual report, the survey was refreshed to…
Beyond Resilience
In recent posts (here, here and here) we have looked at building corporate or government “resilience” as a way of dealing with the unexpected. Throughout these analyses, it seemed that…
The Ministry of Mad er… Stuff.
On May 26 this year, The Times’ feature writer Janice Turner posted a rather thought provoking tweet. Since our last three blogs have been focussed on almost exactly this (here,…
The Resilience Imperative
The uncertainty generated by the pandemic has led McKinsey to follow BCG’s attempt, that we commented on previously, and focus on resilience. Their recent report, “Succeeding in uncertain times”, identifies…