by Alex W. | Mar 14, 2013 | Cybersecurity, Government large and small, Organisations
ENISA, Europe’s network and information security agency, just released a report looking at cloud computing from the perspective of critical infrastructure protection. ENISA asserts that 80% of large organisations will be using cloud solutions within two years. The...
by Alex W. | Jan 31, 2013 | management and leadership, Organisations
Energy companies will need to significantly increase their focus on cyber security in the next three to five years if they wish to keep ahead of the increasing risks to their business from direct cyber attack and malware. The Oil and Gas sector will need to invest...
by Alex W. | Oct 3, 2012 | Community and Society, management and leadership, Organisations
On the face of it, complex systems might have more resilience than those that are simple because they can have more safeguards built-in and more redundancy. However, this is not supported by real world observation. Simply put, more complexity means more things can go...
by Alex W. | Aug 16, 2012 | Community and Society, Government large and small, Individual and Personal Resilience, management and leadership, Organisations
Resilience I’ve been trying to summarise organisational resilience into a form that can be visualised for some of the people who I’m working with. The key has been to summarise the thinking on resilience as succinctly as possible. Apart from the diagram...
by Alex W. | Jul 10, 2012 | Community and Society, Government large and small, management and leadership, Organisations, Quirky
The quote above has been often misattributed to Charles Darwin. But according to the Darwin project, it is actually a quote from Leon Megginson* in the 1960s paraphrasing Darwin in a management journal. Now that I have done my bit to put that meme to bed, it is worth...
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