Scenario Planning, BCP, Risk Registers and Real Options Portfolios

Scenario Planning, BCP, Risk Registers and Real Options Portfolios

‘What if’, scenario planning can foster useful discussion on the kind of future can you expect.  Such planning helps a organisation decide whether it should take actions now, in anticipation of various potential futures. Those actions might involve considering; innovation, efficiency and resource focus for greater impact. Unfortunately, in the not for profit sector, manyContinue Reading Scenario Planning, BCP, Risk Registers and Real Options Portfolios

Business Flexibility, Resilience and Extreme Weather Threats

Business Flexibility, Resilience and Extreme Weather Threats

The media frequently report on extreme weather events battering coastlines and causing flooding, whether storms in the UK, hurricanes in the Caribbean, typhoons in South East Asia or cyclones in the South Pacific.   Such events cause huge problems for emergency services teams, insurance companies, government environmental agencies, tourism operators, utility companies, boat-run businesses andContinue Reading Business Flexibility, Resilience and Extreme Weather Threats

Workplace Resiliency – Durability

Workplace Resiliency – Durability

Workforce resilience arguably includes three aspects; protection, durability and healing. This article examines the middle one, durability (wear and tear) in more detail.  Emergency services teams and the military are great HR examples of team resiliency under a range of unexpected, or unplanned operating conditions. The team is tested, sometimes to breaking point. They relyContinue Reading Workplace Resiliency – Durability

Workplace Resilience – Healing Rates

Workplace Resilience – Healing Rates

Workforce resilience arguably includes three aspects; protection, durability and healing. This article examines the final one, healing in more detail.  Health workers are experts in helping people heal after illness or accident.  They may even have multiple healing options at their disposal. They adapt the treatments as needed. In the A&E/ER environment, medics handle multipleContinue Reading Workplace Resilience – Healing Rates

Resilience defined

Resilience defined

McKinsey & Co, World renown strategic consultants, in their article ‘Resilience for sustainable, inclusive growth’, publishing online in June 2022 state that ‘resilience should be seen as the ability to deal with adversity, withstand shocks and continuously adapt and accelerate as disruptions and crises arise over time.’ Meanwhile, sleicest-consulting.org.uk has developed a slightly different definition:Continue Reading Resilience defined

Business Facilities and Flexibility

Business Facilities and Flexibility

Post Covid, demand for office usage continues to be uncertain. Some ways that businesses, government organisations, education institutions and charities can use flexibility to hedge uncertainty are as follows: Install flexible wall partitions, so meetings rooms become variable in their capacity. Exploit demand for shorter term tenancy leases, including one year leases and one dayContinue Reading Business Facilities and Flexibility

Business and Charity Success

Business and Charity Success

Delivering customer or beneficiary benefits requires 4 ingredients; insight, strategic focus, expertise and business flexibility. Understanding customer or beneficiary needs is the insight. Choosing which of them to meet well involves both strategic focus and expertise. Building up and maintaining business flexibility ensures survival of the organisation in an uncertain world. Perennial business brands typicallyContinue Reading Business and Charity Success

Staff Specialisation

Staff Specialisation

How much staff specialisation is best? People can become specialists in functions or project teams for a variety of reasons – it can be accidental or deliberate. A generalist may be seconded to do a ‘deep dive’ into a problem, for a prolonged period. They eventually emerge as a specialist – someone with current expertContinue Reading Staff Specialisation