Buridans Blog II

Nutrition is very cool

For the past few weeks I have attended a joint course by WFP and the NYU Global Institute of Public Health on Nutrition on taking a systems perspective to integrate nutrition, health, food systems, value chains and communities. Here is a summary of the key points from the course.

A Systems Approach to Food Access

A systems approach – an approach that stresses the interactive nature of the…

Towards a network approach to organizational agility and resilience

These are my background notes for the presentation I made at the IERP Global Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 4 June 2014.

I have written elsewhere in this space that emergency managers face four different types of problems:

Simple

Complicated

Complex

Anarchy

and that, “the solutions to Simple and Complicated problems should be the focus of planning and plans.”

Traditionally approaches to…

Continuity Insights: social media for #SMEM is on the rise

Earlier this week, Continuity Insights published the Crisis Communications: Social Media & Notifications Systems survey. Continuity Insights began reporting on the use of social media for emergency management in 2012, expanding the survey in 2013 to include social media strategy, risk and views on effectiveness. Both of these reports give the baseline for the 2014 survey.

Key Findings

Use of…

5 Key Lessons to Use Social Media for Emergency Management #SMEM

At the International Crisis & Risk Communication Conference on 5 March 2013, I delivered a presentation on the use of social media for crisis communications, based on the following argument:

Changing technology, public expectations and the ways in which we interact are setting traditional patterns of communication on a trajectory toward obsolescence. Effectively responding to a complex event…

Ready to respond – Business Continuity and Organizational Resilience

Excerpt of the article Ready to respond, which appeared in the Q1 2014 edition of Continuity, the magazine of the Business Continuity Institute What would you say are the principles which underpin the UN’s approach to business continuity and organisational resilience?

The UN’s approach to business continuity and organisational resilience is centred on continuous learning and improvement, and is…