The Noggin Blog

Hey, Risk professionals! Heading to RIMS 2018, the best place to enhance your knowledge of emerging risks, claims, and cyber risks? Well, we’ll be there too, making some pretty big news in Crisis Management. 

Welcome to Part 1 of our 4 Part blog series on what it's like to work in Noggin's Product Development Team. We're always on the lookout for the best and brightest talent out there, and we know great talent cares about a lot more than just the offer. So, this series will give you a bit of a sneak peek into life as a Noggin. 

At Noggin, we pride ourselves on hiring and retaining the best talent in the industry. We’re constantly on the hunt for movers, shakers, and people who excel in their field. You might be asking yourself, “so, what’s it like to work at Noggin anyway?” For starters, we work on a kick-ass product and make a quantifiable impact in the incident management space.

I remember once seeing a tourism ad for Fiji that stated, "It's like Hawaii, before the war!" although it was clearly written by someone like my brother who lives in Fiji... not that I'm jealous or anything. 

Somewhere between “Draft 2” and “Draft 73,” it can be easy to lose control over your all-important report. It can happen as a result of having many hands in the cookie jar: multiple edits, deletions, insertions or course-corrections.

Without a proper version control system in place, and the right tools to help you keep track of changes to a document, you’ll get lost in the Bermuda Triangle of document management, potentially spending more time trying to tell the documents apart than was spent to create the original in the first place.

Fifty-six people aboard a flight departing Belfast, Northern Ireland escaped serious injury over the weekend after the nose landing gear on their airplane failed to descend and the pilot was forced to land at Belfast International Airport (BFS) without it.

The pilot of the Flybe airline Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 was hailed a hero after landing the airplane as smoothly as possible on the plane’s nose and skidding for several hundred yards on the tarmac. The ground crew, which included awaiting fire and emergency medical first responders, was also praised by Belfast International Airport Operations Director Alan Whiteside for responding "extremely smoothly."

 
Touted as the “first ever factual thriller on British television¹,” Hunted, a ShineTV reality programme, chronicles the journey of 14 ordinary Brits, given £450 and told to vanish. The goal: evade capture for 28 days.

Many people suffer from information overload, whether it be too many emails, calls, texts or social media messages. But in an emergency situation, too many alerts can have dire consequences.

There has been widespread adoption of notification systems for emergency notifications at a raft of different levels of government globally. There are sometimes agreed structures in place for who notifies which geographic region – based on incident, first responder status and so on. However, there is a growing sentiment that there are too many alerts, and  the combination of alerts which can occur when a major incident happens are causing people to turn off their messaging altogether.

Risk management and incident management typically operate as separate silos within an organisation but bringing them together has its advantages.

First and foremost, it strengthens organisational resilience which in an ideal world encompasses all “5R’s” of resilience:

1. Risk Reduction – Risk management and analysis
2. Respond Effectively – Incident management

The cloud has reached the state where now it is getting difficult to remember a time in the modern world without it, and the same goes for its use in businesses. With cloud expenditure is set to soar to a record $70 billion in 2015 alone, most organizations utilize at least a few cloud services, be it data storage or increasingly, products known as Software as a Service (SaaS). This refers to software that is hosted in the cloud – external servers – which means the costs traditionally associated with hosting software and data – including storage, maintenance of servers, as well as all compliance and security costs are mitigated.

Geospatially aware risk management is a relatively new concept that has been made possible through recent innovations in satellite technology, mapping improvements and widespread adoption of Global Positioning System (GPS), which has seen almost every modern smartphone and mobile device have access to real time location tracking.