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ISRM Global Journal 2024 – Wicked Problems

Recent events have reminded us of the VUCAD world in which we live – one in which we are regularly confronted with, and called upon to address, a wide range of “wicked problems”. A term which is often misunderstood by “outsiders to the risk world”, wicked problems are typically defined as… “…those problems for which […]

Microsoft Meltdown and Fragile Systems: Lessons Learned

The global outage that impacted Microsoft systems around the world on 20th July cannot be considered as an error, simple failure or outlier event. It was in fact an absolutely inevitable consequence of the increasingly complex interactions and inter-dependencies that characterise the global networks on which we are dependent, and which are only increasing in their […]