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Beyond Resilience
1 September 2021in Foresight, Governance, Risk Management, Scenario Planning, Strategy0by Huw Williams

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…

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The Ministry of Mad er… Stuff.
2 July 2021in Decision making, Futures, Policy making, Risk Management0by Jonathan Blanchard Smith

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,…

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Future Proofing for resilience – and for opportunity
17 June 2021in Foresight, Risk Management0by Jonathan Blanchard Smith

Future Proofing for resilience – and for opportunity

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)…

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Reasonable Worst-Case Scenarios
9 December 2020in Decision making, Foresight, Futures, Policy making, Risk Management1by Huw Williams and Jonathan Blanchard-Smith

Reasonable Worst-Case Scenarios

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”,…

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Cyber Risk - Should boards be concerned?
29 October 2020in Risk Management, Scenarios0by Paul Moxey

Cyber Risk - Should boards be concerned?

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…

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Compromise risk: ‘cake-and- eat-it’ syndrome
16 October 2020in Decision making, Policy making, Risk Management0by Garry Honey

Compromise risk: ‘cake-and- eat-it’ syndrome

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…

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