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I think some orgs are getting there, with SRE teams and red team exercises and the like. But I agree the overall industry is still deep in the 19th century, as far as managing this specific set of risks goes.

> What comes to mind is "Tiger Teams" and "EMS services"

I know EMS services of course, but what are Tiger Teams? A cursory Google search didn't turn up anything useful. Any pointers where I could learn more about them?

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"Tiger Teams" are relatively common in large technical organizations (usually outside of computing).

I have seen them at a linear accelerator facility and also in large factories. I think the first time the name was used was in the NASA space program (and looking at the wikipedia link someone provided that appears to be correct).

Basically, they are teams that are put together to deal with ongoing critical cross-cutting problems in the organization. They are, by nature, cross-functional. Large orgs tend to put talent into silos. Silo'd talent can make the org vulnerable to weird problems where no one feels enough agency to act using the excuse-- "it's not my job". A Tiger Team is intended to work across silos.

It's the first time I hear about Tiger teams too. Here is a Wikipedia article : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_team

Ours is a small company with about 50 employees. Whenever we encounter an especially mission-critical blocker we assemble a group of people that put their heads together to work on it. The goal is investigate all possible angles and relentlessly work on it till it is resolved.

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