31 May 2007
In a world increasingly obsessed with eliminating risk to individuals, businesses and public organisations today face a widening range of threats; are they really prepared for them?
Planning, training and exercising are the three parts of an organisation's resilience strategy that are now, from a risk management perspective, absolutely non-negotiable.
The rising risk environment is well document and 'risk assessments' are now the prerequisite of every activity. But their very ubiquity obscures, and even exacerbates, the real problem for organisations. Assessing risk may absolve you from theoretical or legal responsibility when things go wrong: it doesn't do anything to ensure you can put them right.
