Written by Gill Ringland, Ed Steinmueller & Patricia Lustig, this blog first appeared at the end of June as a Pamphleteer in the Long Finance series, https://www.longfinance.net/news/pamphleteers/what-is-cutting-uk-productivity/ In “Global Risk –…
Tag: resilience
Prepare or Prevent: causes and events in futures thinking
There’s been a lot of discussion about the origin of the Covid-19 virus in Wuhan – did it appear in an animal market or did it escape from a laboratory? …
Software resilience and security - BCS view
BCS (the Chartered Institute for IT, formerly the British Computer Society) has recently answered a “Call for views on software resilience and security for businesses and organisations” from the Department…
Digitalisation and resilience
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…
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 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…