Washout!! Festival Continuity Planning Failure
In June 2012 the Isle of Wight Festival had so many weather related problems that ferries carrying ticket holders were cancelled and those who made it had their cars trapped in the mud soaked fields...
View ArticleLearning courage from Challenger (video)
Contrary to popular belief, the space shuttle Challenger did not blow up. It fell apart on take off in 1986, killing everybody on board. The Challenger disaster occurred because there was a flaw with...
View ArticleFukushima: Investigation Findings
Calling the Fukushima nuclear incident “a disaster made in Japan” caused by “a multitude of errors and willful negligence“, the official report of The Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent...
View Article4 Business Continuity Case Studies
Download these four free business continuity case studies from Aviva, Sainsbury’s, The Wellcome Trust and Morphy Richards. Aviva is a huge insurance group. It’s primary customer focus is individuals...
View ArticleGlasgow Airport Terrorist Attack Case Study
On 30 June 2007, two men crashed a car bomb into Glasgow Airport just one day after a near miss occurred in London when an attack two car bombs were foiled in Haymarket. This case study looks at the...
View ArticleCommunity Powered Disaster Recovery (video)
“On June 1st we weren’t disaster relief experts but on June 3rd we started faking it,” say Caitria and Morgan O’Neill. After a freak tornado hit their town, these sisters felt they had no choice but to...
View ArticleWhat’s the worst financial scandal of all time?
What’s the worst financial scandal of all time? That’s the question the Huffington Post is asking – and they want your nominations and votes for the most offensive! They’re currently offering the...
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Case Study: The Tylenol Crisis
We’re always being told we should find the opportunities in crisis. Sometimes, as Johnson & Johnson’s murderous Tylenol case study shows, you won’t find the ‘opportunity’ until you’ve created it....
View ArticleOur Top 5 Disaster Case Studies
We love a good case study. We learn more from other people’s experiences than we do from any text book. So we decided to pick our Top 5 Case Studies. These are the ones we’ve found most interesting to...
View ArticleToyota v GM: Resilience in a Volatile World
Why did Toyota suffer losses while General Motors sailed through the after effects of the tsunami in Japan in March 2011? And how is our understanding of resilience changing? Harvard Business Review...
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