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Objective 1: Organisational planning for hazard events
Goal: To understand how New Zealand organisations
- prioritise investment for hazard events
- develop a framework for improved internal organisational planning
- facilitate integration of hazard planning with other organisations
This objective will explore the following issues:
- How organisations dedicate resources to prepare for and respond
to hazards. The reasons for investment in emergency planning and
how obligations to customers, regulators, government policy, and
accounting practices influence these.
- The use of risk management approaches to emergency planning and
how very low probability, extreme consequence events and the potential
for organisational collapse are managed.
- Sophistication of operational and strategic plans for responding
to extreme events, critical interfaces between organisations and
how these are addressed.
- Consultation and communication of risk and expectations within
organisations, with their stakeholders, between organisations and
with the community.
Lead researchers and their specialist areas
- Erica Seville: Objective Leader
Risk management, complex systems analysis; hazard risk assessment.
- Dave Brunsdon: Lifelines engineering, emergency
planning and management, end user connections.
- John Vargo: Strategic business planning, information
security, organisational case study methodology.
Target Research Outputs
Resilience Management Framework
Resilience Management brings together risk management
and business continuity planning into common framework; combining
a strategy of managing identified risks with an ability to respond
effectively to any crisis, irrespective of whether of not that event
had been previously identified as a risk.
Metrics for quantifying resilience
Metrics are needed so that organisations can demonstrate
and value their resilience strategies, and create a business case
for improving resilience.
Best Practice principles for improving resilience
Best practice principles and ‘real-world’ examples
to be identified and promoted throughout the research programme.
In particular the case studies and research into the performance
of organisations following actual hazard events (such as the Boxing
Day tsunami and Greymouth Tornado) will provide source material for
this research output.
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