If there is one thing we have all learnt from events of the last two years it is that change happens – often without warning, and sometimes with catastrophic consequences.
We have also seen how many businesses were blindsided by events for which they were to a greater or lesser extent unprepared. True, there is little an individual business can do about events such as those that brought about the credit squeeze and subsequent downturn, but we could perhaps have been more prepared for such eventualities. (more…)