tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61457887421967971112024-03-14T04:11:01.130+10:00Resilience and SecurityOrganisational resilience and security strategy are critical to business success. This blog provides a place for me to reflect on resilience, security, risk management and business continuity management. From time to time I will blog about organisational leadership and culture during disasters, emergencies and crisis.
The view expressed in this blog are my own.Lee Hutchisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02732300283312235603noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145788742196797111.post-42717158770559809932014-06-22T13:42:00.001+10:002014-06-22T13:42:27.584+10:00Cells in a complex adaptive system: Resilience begins with you<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Lee Hutchisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02732300283312235603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145788742196797111.post-89797183292805190782012-12-04T20:27:00.000+10:002012-12-04T20:27:19.880+10:00Business Resilience through change management – some quick thoughts<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Business resilience can complement change
management initiatives and programs. So what does business resilience have to offer the
organisation that wants or needs to change?
Business resilience is focused on business
success (or at least it should be). As an organisation goes through a change
program and refocuses on core business (for Lee Hutchisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02732300283312235603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145788742196797111.post-87093537213429664512012-11-11T11:50:00.001+10:002012-11-11T13:31:18.674+10:00Network Risk Management – risky business or just good business?<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Lee Hutchisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02732300283312235603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145788742196797111.post-38224560275633337592012-08-14T13:19:00.002+10:002012-08-14T20:19:59.820+10:00Risk Intelligence - When crisis hits
In a crisis, we don’t just react blindly to the stimulus in our operating
environment – unless we have a morbid fascination with failure. We also should
not become paralysed with indecision because a problem is too difficult, we don’t fully understand
it, or we don’t like the solution. We need to invest in understanding and risk
intelligence.
Good risk management is widely accepted as
Lee Hutchisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02732300283312235603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145788742196797111.post-18767884370399665612012-08-04T12:37:00.000+10:002012-08-04T12:37:20.448+10:00Watch out for the rock when focused on the forest
Everyone has heard the saying - can’t see the
forest for the trees right? Certainly the ability to see the big picture when
setting the business strategy is critical for any business to succeed. This is
also a critical success factor during turbulent times. A crisis requires the leadership
to step back and understand the internal and the external environment in the face of significant white Lee Hutchisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02732300283312235603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145788742196797111.post-33772184860342922862012-07-24T13:53:00.002+10:002012-07-24T13:54:23.062+10:00Defining Resilience - part 2 to "Resilience - what is it really?"
In my first
blog post back in May 2012, I defined resilience as the capability, capacity and will to succeed by anticipating risk and
reorientating for survival and advantage in the face of adversity both seen and
unseen, known and unknown.
Exploring this definition we can
further break it down as follows:
‘The
capability to succeed - Having in
place the right people, systems,Lee Hutchisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02732300283312235603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145788742196797111.post-73922810204767477402012-07-09T21:42:00.001+10:002013-09-10T20:19:56.112+10:00Creating space in a crisis
Stephen Covey in his book The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness includes a quote that resounds very strongly with me in terms of business
resilience, risk management and crisis leadership.
'Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response.....'
According to http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/v/viktorefr160380.Lee Hutchisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02732300283312235603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145788742196797111.post-46399628273235832612012-07-02T20:45:00.000+10:002012-07-02T20:47:28.853+10:00Five reasons to invest in resilience - success, culture, knowledge, efficiency and muscle
1. Business success
Business success is my top reason for investing in
organisational resilience. Creeping failure, turbulence and shocks disrupt
business as usual, undermine business success and impact on business as usual –
thus the key reason for investing in resilience. The rest of the reasons are
also closely linked to business success but this is one that Lee Hutchisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02732300283312235603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145788742196797111.post-37169301715552513442012-06-25T19:57:00.004+10:002012-06-25T20:08:12.592+10:00Organisational Resilience from New ZealandMy first post to this blog was my own definition of organisational resilience. I followed this by a summary of some key characteristics of a resilient organisation. Keeping true to the purpose of this blog, to encourage discussion around resilience, I would like to share with you a New Zealand take on organisational resilience which has been backed by a significant amount of research and more Lee Hutchisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02732300283312235603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145788742196797111.post-15179591978090983442012-06-18T20:29:00.001+10:002012-06-18T21:46:06.713+10:00Checklists? Plans? Adaptation? Plan to Adapt!
The Checklists
Many an academic debate about the merits or otherwise of
checklists, plans or adaptation is started over a red wine. All three have
their place but they work best in concert with each other with respect to emergencies
and other organisational crises.
Checklists are widely used in OH&S and certified
standards such as ISO27001 and ISO9001. They support quality checks Lee Hutchisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02732300283312235603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145788742196797111.post-17826051114450039142012-06-10T14:37:00.001+10:002012-06-18T21:06:50.118+10:00Stop choking on the dust
I attended an ASIS
International breakfast (Qld Chapter)
this week which featured a guest speaker, Robbie Sinclair who is also a friend of mine. He
spoke about the need for, and value of, security professionals acquiring and
maintaining leadership and management skills. His presentation is below.
Asis presentation robbie sinclair 2012 v1
I walked away from the morning having
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Lee Hutchisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02732300283312235603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145788742196797111.post-72850559357929727762012-05-27T14:10:00.001+10:002012-05-27T22:19:17.699+10:00Could this be the Resilience Cycle or just another bike?
A variety of planning and quality cycles are used to
ensure plans, business processes and objectives remain on track. Probably the
most well known are Boyds (observe, orientate, decide and act) OODA Loop [1]
and the PDCA cycle (plan, do, check, act) / PDSA (plan, do, study act) [2]
In 2009, ‘Adaptive Campaigning 09 – Army’s Future Land Operating
Concept was published introducing the Lee Hutchisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02732300283312235603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145788742196797111.post-68592607088711197142012-05-19T17:28:00.002+10:002012-05-19T19:51:59.973+10:00The new standard on the block
For those of us working in risk, business continuity, security and emergency management we knew it was coming...
International Standard ISO 22301 "Societal security - Business continuity management systems - Requirements" has now been issued.
It is the first international standard for business continuity management systems. The standard will allow certification of an organisation's Lee Hutchisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02732300283312235603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145788742196797111.post-65923351618290291342012-05-10T20:42:00.002+10:002012-05-27T23:17:06.304+10:00The elements of resilience
Let’s have a closer look at the definition raised in my
previous post ‘Resilience – what is it really?’
If I break down my definition of resilience it allows us to
further explore the component parts
Let’s look at the definition again:
the capability,
capacity and will to succeed by anticipating risk and reorientating for
survival and advantage in the face of adversity, both seen and Lee Hutchisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02732300283312235603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145788742196797111.post-22274743009408975812012-05-07T18:24:00.004+10:002012-05-07T19:40:23.467+10:00Resilience - what is it really?
This is my first post, so any feedback or thoughts would be most welcome!
Organisational or business resilience in Australia is continuously
maturing. If you were after a definition on organisational resilience you could
ask ten different people and get ten different answers. Personally, the one I
think captures it best is
the capability, capacity and will to succeed by Lee Hutchisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02732300283312235603noreply@blogger.com0