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Blog Review: Oz’s Business Continuity Blog

This month’s blog review is not just a post, it is perhaps also an Easter Egg in disguise, considering the holiday season we’re in.  Truly, it is a great pleasure to present Oz’s Business Continuity Blog, written by by Andy Osborne, a consultant in business continuity and risk management from the UK. It is a blog as a blog should be, separated from the jargon and seriousness on Andy’s main business site and dedicated to reporting on Andy’s reflections on the everyday haps and mishaps that life brings him. It is a personal blog and it is a fun blog, but it never forgets its main goal: to spread life’s own lessons in business continuity and risk management.

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Risk Management Simplified

Risk management. Why make it difficult when you can make it easy? That is perhaps what Andy Osborne thought when he wrote his most recent book, Risk Management Simplified. The cover says that is is “A practical, step-by-step guide to identifying and addressing risks to your business”, and it doesn’t come much more practical than this. This is a handbook and a self-assessment tool that leaves practically no risk uncovered. It’s practical, well-illustrated, to the point, not academic at all, filled with case examples and easy to work with. In this post, I will take a closer look at the book, because despite it’s simplicity, it does hold a couple of hidden gems worth mentioning.

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