Recommended Reading
This is where members can post links to documents that they have found useful and would like to recommend. Book reviews can also be posted on this page.
Transform - This document is a report prepared by the US Competitevness Council on the all hazards turbulence threats facing the international business world and the requirement for effective risk management, business continuity and crisis management to build resilience organsiations. A very useful resouce for risk and continuity managers.
Reccommended by: D Parsons
Resilience Management: A framework for assessing and improving the resilience of organisations - This report published by the University of Cantebury in NZ outlines the learnings to date from a research project that is developing a methodolgy for assessing the resilience of an organisation to any hazard. This report provides some great ideas for risk and business continuity managers.
Reccommended by: D Parsons
From forest Fires to Hurricane Katrina: Case Studies of Incident Command Systems - The lessons learnt section of this report has some very good tips for persons managing crisis and emergency response programs.One key lesson was the importance of creating working relationships and trust.
Reccommended by: D Parsons