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Rather than thinking of it as a chain it is more like a spider web When you snip one part of the web it immediately becomes weak And the spider feels that no matter where it is and quickly runs for cover At what point will the spider repair the web We try to bring to our clients the knowledge a spider has When do I know when the web is irrepressibly damaged and when it can be repaired Does it mean making the web stronger Protecting it Building another Chris Johnson RIMS Instead of talking about climate change why don t we talk about making our communities more robust What are the practical things we can do today Everyone wants to discuss climate change but when will we start put ting communities on high land and fix urban drainage Urban planners are talking about putting affordable housing in flood plains All we are doing is making the problem worse Shivan Subramaniam RIMS On the Record FM Global executives meet the press and contribute to the public risk management discourse Those companies focused on resilience tend to export it to their facilities around the world It goes back to the culture of those organizations Resilience is quite simple to understand When bad events happen you want to be in business when your competi tors aren t and those who are the most resil ient stay in business Tom Lawson RIMS One of the most important things going on is meeting the service expectations of multina tional companies They tend to be very sophisticated very demanding clients It s a global economy of course so the ability to follow them around the world wherever they go and pro vide them with the level of service they re used to in their home territory is really important Randy Schreitmueller in Best s Review Let s talk about a different kind of change He who is the most resilient On supply chains or rather webs Home is where the heart is ISSUE 2 2014 Reason 25 the IDEA