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Clarity Library
Clarity Library
Insights and sense-making in business continuity and resilience.
Insights and sense-making in business continuity and resilience.
This is a growing collection of reflections, working notes, and practical essays on resilience — with business continuity at the core.
Some pieces are fully formed, others are shared in the spirit of showing the workings: exploring ideas openly, testing assumptions, and capturing what feels useful in practice.
Over time, this will evolve into a small knowledge base — a place to return to for clarity, judgement, and perspective.
Understanding What Matters
Understanding What Matters
Exploring what matters most to your organisation, the impacts of disruption, and how things connect in practice.
The BIA: More Than Just Box-Ticking
An introduction to the Business Impact Analysis - what it is, what it isn't and the value it can deliver when done well.
Is the BIA Dead?
A reflection on the role of business impact analysis, what it still offers, and where it often falls short in practice.
Related: Planning With Purpose, Practising & Learning
Planning With Purpose
Planning With Purpose
Practical guidance on creating plans that are useful, actionable, and aligned with organisational priorities.
Clear, practical planning that reflects your organisation’s goals, structure, and day-to-day realities.
Related: Understanding What Matters, Systems & Culture
Practising & Learning
Practising & Learning
Turning plans into capability; combining structured planning with confident, agile response; growing confidence in your teams.
Building team capability and confidence through realistic, psychologically safe exercises.
How well-intended continuity practices can become over-engineered, and what it takes to keep resilience flexible.
Not Everything Needs an Ambulance
A reflection on subsidiarity, escalation, and the difference between operational response and crisis management.
Related: Planning With Purpose, Systems & Culture, Crisis & Leadership
Crisis & Leadership
Crisis & Leadership
Understanding crises, decision-making under pressure, and leadership readiness.
What is a Crisis?
A reflection on how crises are understood, why definitions vary, and how clarity of meaning shapes effective response.
Not Everything Needs an Ambulance
A reflection on subsidiarity, escalation, and the difference between operational response and crisis management.
Related: Practising & Learning, Planning With Purpose
Systems Thinking & Culture
Systems Thinking & Culture
Organisational context, systems thinking, and culture that enable resilience.
Seeing the System
A reflection on systems thinking — and how stepping back can cut through complexity.
A Collaborative Resilience Ecosystem
A visual exploration of how Emergency Planning, Crisis Management, IT Service Continuity, and Business Continuity function as a coordinated system during disruptive events.
How well-intended continuity practices can become over-engineered, and what it takes to keep resilience flexible.
Related: Practising & Learning, Planning With Purpose
Reflections
Reflections
Thought pieces that challenge orthodoxy, explore principles, or provoke reflection.
Is the BIA Dead?
A reflection on the role of business impact analysis, what it still offers, and where it often falls short in practice.
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