Beyond The Black Stump

G’day, this is Ken Simpson and welcome to episode 26 of Beyond the Black Stump. The podcast that seeks to encourage leadership and learning in the risk and resilience disciplines. Another variation in show format today. No interview or guest, instead let’s talk about one of the core practices within the Business Continuity discipline, and how we could make that a core contributor to the wider concept of resilience. We touched on this in the last show with Rina also. This is a subject that I have written several papers and blog posts about so the show is also a bit of an experiment to use the audio format as an alternative to the written paper. The written versions are all linked in the show notes if you are motivated to read further. The practice I am talking about today is known by different names, and unfortunately they actually describe very different practices. Do you use these words interchangeably? Testing, Exercising, Rehearsing Perhaps you just lump all of these things under the compliance-oriented