Action Item: Ban All Vacations
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 […]
Category Archives: Infrastructure
Resilience in emergency management at an operational level: A joint research project with OFFB
By Riana Steen, BI Norwegian Business School (Norway) “Flexibility is the operative principle in the art of war. […] Those who are victorious plan effectively […]
Knowledge, strategies, practices to respond to COVID flexibly Ragosta, Bergstrom, Saurin
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 […]
How Can We Build Resilient Cities?
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 […]
Engage the “Uns”
By Laurin Mooney https://www.behighlyreliable.com and Beth Lay We’ve been trained for decades to do a thorough pre-task brief focused on identifying and managing every risk […]
NPS Researchers Plan Resilient Infrastructure for the Next Disaster in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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 […]
Asher Balkin Interviews Resilience Roundup’s Thai Wood
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 […]
Argentina Blackout And Massive Target Glitch Raise Question: Why Do Systems Fail?
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 […]