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Purpose
To provide the author's opinions about key issues in strategy and the future to the readership.
Design/methodology/approach
Opinion column.
Findings
Discussion of the difficulty of getting organizations to prepare for catastrophic events.
Research limitations/implications
Speculative, and based not on rigorous research but on the author's experience of planning engagements across a wide variety of private and public enterprises.
Practical implications
Warns strategists about the difficulties inherent in planning for catastrophes.
Originality/value
Expresses several opinions that the author believes have not been expressed (or adequately appreciated) elsewhere.
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2005
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