Business resilience

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What is business resilience, exactly and what does "good" look like? Some people may think of business resilience as the linkage of emergency response, crisis management and business continuity management. These elements are important parts of resilience, but other aspects make up the picture...

This article for the Institute of Risk Management (the IRM) describes some key points to ensuring that business resilience is achieved with true purpose.

This piece in the MIT Sloan Management Review discusses the importance of ensuring the interdependencies are managed well, to achieve a good state of resilience.

The family of standards by the ISO under the umbrella of 22300 include 22301: 2019 (Security and resilience – Business continuity management systems – Requirements) offers guidance on creating a good Business Continuity Plan (BCP).

This paper by the World Bank describes how industrial activity creates jobs, catalyses investments and innovation, and raises standards of living in many countries. As climate change and natural disasters intensify, so too does the risk environment for industry.

The management consultants, McKinsey, have a dedicated section on business resilience and risk management.

This paper by Roland Kupers for the World Economic Forum describes nine resilience lenses through which to assess the state of resilience in a complex organisation.

This article by Hans Laessoe considers different views and points about resilience.

This article considers how projects of all types can weave resilience principles into project management activities, improving the overall project eco-system and creating purposeful value for all stakeholders.