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…

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…
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,…
Humanity has always been intrigued by events which would destroy it. The Gilgamesh epic leads to the Babylonian flood myth leads to the Biblical story of the Flood which (almost)…
We’re hearing a lot from Government about “reasonable worst-case scenarios” at the moment. At first sight it seems sensible. We need to think beyond the “base case” or “central case”,…
The short answer is ‘yes’. Boards should be very concerned. Cyber risk is a growing threat for all organisations. If an organisation has not already suffered a cyber attack it…
Viral epidemics have been part of human civilisation for centuries. Black Death in the fourteenth and Plague in the seventeenth, are only the most famous but there were many more…