The Business of Resilience
Corporate security for the 21st century
The project highlights a number of practices – some current, others aspirational – which constitute a manifesto for twenty-first-century corporate security.
- Remarks at the Launch of 'The Business of Resilience' Philip Broadley of The Prudential made the following speech at the launch of Demos' report, "The Business of Resilience" at the Prudential Building on 29 June 2006: "Charles Darwin, the noted writer on security matters, wrote "it is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change". When security is part of the daily rhythm and routine of a business that business is better able to respond to unexpected... continue reading on 31st July 2006
- A fruitless fixation on terrorist attacks Today we launched The Business of Resilience, a new report on how companies must align security with their business objectives. We had a comment piece in Wednesday's Financial Times which argued that the approach of UK companies following the London bombings of July 2005 compared favourably with the heavy-handed response of corporate America to the attacks of September 2001. While companies take the threat of terrorism seriously, we found that most UK businesses do not regard it as the main... continue reading on 29th June 2006