Notes from
the field.
Essays on business continuity, operational resilience, and crisis response. Written for practitioners and the executives who back them. No frameworks-as-listicles, no five-step funnels.
- 22 May 2026Continuity
The Plan Is Not the Capability
A continuity plan is the residue of thinking, not the thinking itself. Most organisations confuse the document for the muscle.
6 min↗A continuity plan is the residue of thinking, not the thinking itself. Most organisations confuse the document for the muscle.
- 2 May 2026BIA
The BIA Is a Conversation, Not a Spreadsheet
Business Impact Analysis has become an exercise in colour-coded compliance. The version that earns its keep is something else.
7 min↗Business Impact Analysis has become an exercise in colour-coded compliance. The version that earns its keep is something else.
- 11 April 2026Exercises
Scenario Design as an Act of Craft
Most exercises fail before anyone walks into the room. The failure is in the scenario, and the scenario is a writing problem.
6 min↗Most exercises fail before anyone walks into the room. The failure is in the scenario, and the scenario is a writing problem.
- 20 March 2026Crisis
The Myth of the Single Incident Commander
The lone decisive leader makes a clean diagram and a poor reality. Modern incidents reward distributed command — and the discipline to design for it.
7 min↗The lone decisive leader makes a clean diagram and a poor reality. Modern incidents reward distributed command — and the discipline to design for it.
- 26 February 2026Regulation
Regulatory Resilience and the Tick-Box Trap
APRA CPS 230, DORA, and their cousins are the best thing to happen to operational resilience in a decade — and the easiest to misuse.
7 min↗APRA CPS 230, DORA, and their cousins are the best thing to happen to operational resilience in a decade — and the easiest to misuse.
- 30 January 2026Lessons
What COVID Actually Taught Us About Resilience
Five years on, the comfortable lessons have hardened into folklore. The uncomfortable ones are still worth saying out loud.
8 min↗Five years on, the comfortable lessons have hardened into folklore. The uncomfortable ones are still worth saying out loud.