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Book Review – "Deciding: A Guide to Even Better Decision-Making"

I have read many books about decision-making over the years, mostly from a perspective of psychology/behavioural economics. Some have focused on the particular challenges of decision-making in a crisis; whilst others are more general in their outlook, but still generally contain useful nuggets for crisis management. I have to say that this book by Roger […]

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How Long Will SEPA be Disrupted by Ransomware Attack?

More details have emerged in the last couple of weeks of the significant impact of the ransomware attack on the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) that began on Xmas Eve. Nearly 4 weeks on, it has emerged that the email system is still down and that emails submitted since the attack began cannot be accessed.

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PNC Data Loss – Where are the Backups?

Many of us woke up in the UK this morning to the story that, unbelievably, 150 000 records had been erroneously deleted from the Police National Computer. The data loss, which occurred during a regular weekly purge of data, has been attributed to a coding error which has now been rectified. Reassuring as this may

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How Effective is Home Working?

Sadly, there has been no shortage of stories of businesses struggling with Covid-19 in the last year. However, I was intrigued by the story this week about Frontier Development experiencing delays in the release of their much-anticipated Elite Dangerous Odyssey. One would have imagined that developing video games would be one of the industries that

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Are Food Product Recalls on the Rise?

As usual, at this time of the year, we like to review the data on product recalls in the UK. Annual data for recalls of food products (from the FSA website) and electrical products (from the Electrical Safety First website) are shown below. Despite my comment a year ago that “the figures are pretty low

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Book Review – Crisis Proof by Jonathan Hemus

It’s always great to see a new book on crisis management, and I was particularly interested to see this one as I used to run crisis management training courses with Jonathan Hemus some years ago. One of the most common problems with books that purport to be about crisis management is that they really just

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Remembering the Ibrox Disaster Fifty Years On

Tributes have been paid in Glasgow and across the world to the 66 people who died in a crush on Stairway 13 at Ibrox Park fifty years ago today. A casual reading of the incident might conclude that it was simply a tragic combination of circumstances – Rangers fans elated by a last-minute equaliser against

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Global Disruption to Google Services

At around 1130 GMT yesterday, users around the world started experiencing difficulties using Google services such as YouTube and Gmail. Despite this, Google’s status dashboard continued to indicate that everything was working fine for some time. Meanwhile, Google’s search engine appears to have continued to work normally. The problem was quickly traced to an outage

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On This Day in History – The Buncefield Explosion

Fifteen years ago today, at 6am on Sunday 11th December 2005, the largest ever explosion and fire in peacetime Western Europe took place at the Buncefield Oil Storage Depot in Hemel Hempstead. Miraculously there were no fatalities, and only 60 casualties; but in every other sense the impact of the incident was huge. Summarising some

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