Now that your profile is here I’ll be featuring it a number of times in the future. I notice that my back catalogue is getting hit more frequently now, so you should see a regular stream of new readers coming through. I hope they find your blog as interesting as I do.

The stats tell me that about 4% of my visits are referred from here, and 50% of that traffic comes form the profile.

Much appreciated.

Of course we all know that these actions do have an affect but the extent is an unknown quantity. I look forward to reading the follow up papers from this group as the research is at an early stage (although this was published in 2007, I can’t find any follow up papers). As the researchers admit, the sample size is small and may not be representative. However they indicate that future research will develop a more quantifiable model and I look forward to the results of their work.

I look forward to how this develops.

I am not sure that I agree with you that it can (or must/should) be able to be reduced to a specific measure.

Or, if we are to measure it – under the rule of ‘what you cannot measure you cannot manage’ then I don’t believe we will have a single measure of resilience.

What we will need to measure is the things that contribute to resilience – for the Ohio model, the elements in the matrix.

The Uni of Canterbury model has many more – http://www.blog.vrg.net.au/index.php/continuityresilience/the-meaning-of-resilience/

Looking forward to tomorrow’s post Paul.

Thank you for your kind words and you can be sure that I never miss an update from your own blog.

I am concerned that the majority of BC people do not look at the discipline and their practices using an academic rigor. That is not to say that they are bad or wrong – only that perhaps a growing maturity would require greater critical thinking about the approach.

When you look at the data behind this story – http://www.continuitycentral.com/news04910.html
what makes a good BC Manager, it would seem to re-enforce that this is not something people value.

Former academic research, I guess that explains the
volume (and quality) of output!

Look forward to tomorrows post.

I’ve just finished reading (the now old) Harvard Business Review on Crisis Management, and while maybe related to business continuity in a wider sense, what strikes me is the practical approach that is taken by those who have lived through a crisis and come out alive to tell the story.

As to an “intellectual” approach to business continuity and resilience, I highly recommend Helen Peck’s article on “Reconciling supply chain vulnerability, risk and supply chain management”, which I’ve reviewed on my blog.