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Mon apprentissage - Il mio tirocinio - My apprenticeship - Meine Lehre

Emergency Planning

If, gentle listener, you want to write well, consult the experts. To appreciate irony to the full you must have experienced the Baroque (as a culture, not an art form - see my book Confronting Catastrophe ; I was much influenced by José Antonio Maravell, a Spanish historian of the Baroque). But let us not be deterred. Learn from them.

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‘Adaptive Business Continuity: A New Approach’

Plan B Consulting

Whilst Charlie was on holiday last week, he read a recently published book about Adaptive Business Continuity. In the newly published book ‘Adaptive Business Continuity: A New Approach’, by David Lindstedt and Mark Armour, doing away with the BIA is one of the key elements in their business continuity manifesto.

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Rota Power Cuts and an Old Incident Revisited – Auckland Power Outage, 1998

Plan B Consulting

The thought of a power cut in a city reminds me of the outage in Auckland in 1998, which made a big impression on the emergency planning community. This was because it was completely different to what risks we had originally planned for. Answer: Electricity”.

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Rota Power Cuts and an Old Incident Revisited – Auckland Power Outage, 1998

Plan B Consulting

The thought of a power cut in a city reminds me of the outage in Auckland in 1998, which made a big impression on the emergency planning community. This was because it was completely different to what risks we had originally planned for. Answer: Electricity”.

Outage 52
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‘Adaptive Business Continuity: A New Approach’

Plan B Consulting

Whilst Charlie was on holiday last week, he read a recently published book about Adaptive Business Continuity. In the newly published book ‘Adaptive Business Continuity: A New Approach’, by David Lindstedt and Mark Armour, doing away with the BIA is one of the key elements in their business continuity manifesto.

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Rota Power Cuts and an Old Incident Revisited – Auckland Power Outage, 1998

Plan B Consulting

The thought of a power cut in a city reminds me of the outage in Auckland in 1998, which made a big impression on the emergency planning community. This was because it was completely different to what risks we had originally planned for. Answer: Electricity”.

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Lessons Learned from British Airways: Emergency Landing in Valencia

Plan B Consulting

This week Charlie looks at what lessons we can learn from British Airways’ recent emergency landing at Valencia Airport. One of the problems of being a consultant is that you rarely get the opportunity to actually manage or participate in the response to an incident. Lesson 7 – Pay generous compensation early.