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05 Readings
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This issue of BFM is focused on "Business Continuity Governance": how to ensure that your business will be able to cope with unforeseen events with minimal disruption and minimal additional costs with a continuous, knowledge-based re-assessment of your needs.
The suggested readings listed in this section usually will not include business books, as plenty of other sources already cover that area.
Instead, we will suggest books that while seemingly irrelevant to the task, could actually give you a different perspective on the subject at hand.
For this issue, we suggest the following:
- David Bradley, No Place to Hide, Little Brown and Company, Boston
- This short book, the Log of a doctor who was assigned to duty with the Operation Crossroads, the Bikini experiments of 1946, describes how a huge and complex organization can stil creatively respond to unforeseen events
- Alessandro Guidi, I metodi della ricerca archeologica, Laterza, ISBN 88-420-4542-X
- Some ideas and perspectives on how to chart and prioritize a territory whose boundaries are known, but whose internal structure has to be considered as a whole
- Norman F Dixon, Our own worst enemy, Jonathan Cape, ISBN 0-224-02372-1
- This book could be read as an interesting collection of failures on the "human side" of organizations, as related to the failure of considering how human beings interact with their environment
- Attack on Pearl Harbour 1941- Conclusions of the US Congressional Committee 1946, London The Stationery Office, ISBN 0-11-702744-8
- This post-mortem of the Pearl Harbour dèbacle is an interesting detailed description of mismanagement of the communication chain inside a complex organization, with a clear example of "domino effects"
- Andrew Weir, The Tombstone Imperative, Simon&Schuster, ISBN 0-7434-1583-3
- Recents events increased the awareness on air travel security- intended as security from external disturbances; but what happen when those disturbances are compounded by internal, unmanaged weaknesses? A series of lessons on how to assess the risk
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2003-2005 edition