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Codes, resilience and climate change

Many clients are dealing with a conundrum at the cross between codes, resilience and climate change. Solving it is paramount for tactical and strategic planning purposes. Code compliance is not synonymous with resilience When facing good-old hazards that are becoming more frequent and more intense, perhaps due to climate change, it is easy to realize that code compliance becomes meaningless. Indeed, codes work for the “good old way”, both in terms of resilience and frequency. A code compliant solution may…

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Antifragile resilient solutions for tactical and strategic planning

We recently discussed with a client Antifragile resilient solutions for tactical and strategic planning. The theme is interesting and warrants publication this week as it raises a number of interesting issues. We use Rx to indicate our client’s Remarks, and Ax to indicate the our related Answers. Fragile – Robust – Antifragile systems R1) I think there is value in characterizing systems into the three groupings that Taleb presented. That is, Fragile – Robust – Antifragile. Because it gets engineering…

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Let’s define Strategic, Tactical and Operational planning.

Strategic planning is an organization’s process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy. Generally, strategic planning deals, on the whole business, rather than just an isolated unit, with at least one of following three key questions: “What do we do?” “For whom do we do it?” “How do we excel?” For example, the first and third questions are those that motivate an acquisition. Acquisitions are thus strategic choices. Typically strategic…

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Repairing Leadership through Risk Management and Strategic Planning part II

Repairing Leadership through Risk Management and Strategic Planning part II Riskope thanks Kelsey Fox for this interesting post In part I  two methodologies named “critical self reflection” and “long run focus” were discussed. ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT The most crucial component of both methodologies is execution. In their detailed risk management plan, Software Tech Support Center states, “…the real key to software risk management is planning and implementing your plan”. ForwardMetrics’ Chief Strategic Officer, Scott Warner, also emphasized the significance of execution in…

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