Disasters, epitomized by the unexpected 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway and the anticipated COVID-19 pandemic in the UK, reveal critical lessons for organizational learning. These events, characterized as ‘Black Swans’ and ‘Black Elephants’ respectively, underscore the importance of early detection and the potential for mitigating escalation.
On 04 August 2023, Emergency Management Science and Technology published a research article entitled by “Learning from disasters: the 22/7-terrorism in Norway and COVID-19 through a failure modelling lens”. This paper delves into whether organizations can learn from catastrophes through user feedback, advanced tools, and interdisciplinary approaches, aiming to explore the dynamics of learning from failures and successes within organizational contexts.
The research adopts a methodological approach emphasizing the analysis of failures and successes through Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Reliability Block Diagram (RBD) to dissect and understand the complex interplay of factors leading to disasters. FTA maps out the causality and interrelation of various events contributing to a disaster, using…
