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Foresight Matters

David Cloake

Hosted by CEO of Foresight Solutions, David Cloake, Foresight Matters dives into some of the most pertinent (but often not obvious) aspects of business resilience and disaster management. When is it ok to break the rules? What do emotional conversations have to do with reducing safety incidents in high hazard industries? How do you plan ahead to fix a team in the event of a disaster? What is the role of culture in disaster management and why your business resilience plan should not look like your competitor's. David speaks to top international experts across a wide range of industries to give you a refreshingly different way of thinking about how to crisisproof your business. Because foresight matters. 

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  • S2 · E3
    Friday · 44 min

    When is it right to break the rules?

    In a road accident with a tanker, a patient needs to be resuscitated with a defibrillator. The only thing is, the vehicle is rapidly filling up with a lake of petrol and the defibrillator will make a spark..... Like all things in life, emergencies and crises sometimes don't follow the trajectory we assume they will. When you're face to face with real life disaster, when do you follow the rules you've trained for and when do you need to make a different decision? In this episode of Foresight Matters, David Cloake talks to Professor Edward Borodzicz of the University of the West of Scotland about precisely this question. They also delve into understanding the difference between an emergency and a crisis, why humans don't seem to learn from past mistakes, and who performs better in emergency exercises - the leaders or the workers... For advice on risk and business resilience, contact David Cloake at Foresight Solutions on david@foresightsolutions.net

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  • S1 · E2
    June 16 · 27 min

    Cyber Security: Employees are your greatest threat, and your best defence.

    Cyber attacks on businesses are skyrocketing. Some of the UK's biggest businesses have suffered crippling incidents, costing them hundreds of millions of pounds. But smaller companies are far from immune either. The WEF's latest Global Cybersecurity Outlook Report shows a 48% increase in cybercrime year on year. So, how do you identify the biggest cyber risks in your business? What can you do to protect your company? And what role do your employees play in protecting your business or potentially exposing it to bad actors? David Cloake is joined by leading IT resilience specialist David Sheehan to unpack how cyberattacks are orchestrated, and what steps are actually effective in protecting your business from this rapidly evolving threat. The two Davids even got together to create a free tool to help you assess your company's cyber security risk profile. Details in the episode!

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  • S1 · E1
    May 26 · 42 min

    "In a crisis, we don't rise to our plan, we fall to our culture"

    In Episode 1 of Foresight Matters, host David Cloake speaks to international safety learning and development specialist Nuala Gage. Nuala has spent decades consulting to high hazard industries (oil and gas, construction etc) on embedding safety culture into organisations as the norm. From a business resilience perspective, David asks Nuala what the key elements are in building such a culture. How do we get people to believe that bad things happen and we should be prepared daily for disaster in a way that strengthens and makes the business more resilient rather than paralysing progress? Nuala offers several insightful examples of how our communication style and organisational culture around psychological safety play a huge role in changing outcomes when disaster strikes.

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