by J. Paul Reed (Netflix, USA) “I just got pager alert! Our service is reporting 100% CPU utilization; any ideas?” “Not sure, but let’s start by reverting the last code deployment and seeing if that helps.” “Ok… uhh… how do…
By Riana Steen, BI Norwegian Business School (Norway) “Flexibility is the operative principle in the art of war. […] Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts…
What knowledge, strategies and practices do we have at hand to respond in a flexible manner to COVID-19? Lessons learned from Resilience Engineering and Societal Resilience April 20 By Vanessa Becker Bertoni The speakers Martina Ragosta (Italy), Johan Bergström (Sweden),…
by Leire Labaka, TECNUN, University of Navarra, Spain Nowadays, over half of the world’s population lives in cities, and according to United Nations, 66% of the total world’s population is expected to live in cities by the year 2050. Furthermore,…
By Laurin Mooney and Beth Lay We’ve been trained for decades to do a thorough pre-task brief focused on identifying and managing every risk we can think of. While this is a fine, there’s a major problem when applying…
Operational Resilience in the US Virgin Islands, Naval Postgraduate School (NPS, Monterey, USA) Author: Daniel A. Eisenberg Is your community prepared to respond to a Category-5 hurricane? Does your community know how to backup electricity and water systems when power…
By: Beth Lay Silence. We have Thai Wood on the phone. Asher looks at me, puzzled, then mouths “who is interviewing who?” Asher and I were together at a meeting; 45 minutes earlier I’d asked if he wanted to “lead…
Argentina was plunged into darkness that affected 44 million people Sunday. And Target says its stores are operating normally after glitches prevented customers from paying with some credit cards over the weekend. These are some of the latest examples of…