Insights / Analysis
What Makes an Enterprise Resilient?
Resilience is the capacity to preserve critical function, learn and adapt under material disruption.
The central idea
Resilience is the capacity to preserve critical function, learn and adapt under material disruption.
Why it matters
Resilience combines visibility, redundancy, decision rights, financial room and the ability to learn. It is demonstrated by preserving critical function during disruption, not by the absence of disruption.
Put it into practice
Identify critical functions, failure thresholds, dependencies, fallback capacity and who has authority during an incident.
A question for leaders
What would change in the organization if the principle behind “What Makes an Enterprise Resilient?” became part of its normal operating system rather than a one-time exercise?