Building a Strategic Resilience Program
The key components of a Strategic Resilience program will look familiar to professionals and personnel accustomed to Operational Resilience programs.
There’s a good reason. These Operational Resilience programs are effective.
Many organizations now have over 20 years experience developing and optimizing their Operational Resilience, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Crisis Management programs. While many companies developed technology focused disaster recovery plans with the onset of mainframe computer systems and data centers, they expanded programs to include business functions as part of business continuity requirements after 9/11, and they continue to expand the valuable scope of these programs to include enterprise risks, insurance, cyber threats, supply chain, and third-party risks among others.
These resilience programs are now mandated by various US and international regulations and considered a requirement for doing business by large customers, key vendors, Boards of Directors and shareholders.
History of Resilience programs
Strategic Resilience programs are new, and offer a competitive advantage
A Strategic Resilience program reduces strategic risks and increases effectiveness of strategy execution.
The program accomplishes this by enhancing these organizational capabilities:
Focus. The program provides tools and training for leaders to identify and communicate initiatives that are mission critical for the organization’s strategy to succeed.
Adaptability. A flexible program structure and feedback loops improve the organization’s ability to adapt when faced with an external or internal threat.
Situation Assessment. Leaders are empowered to act when they are well informed.
This Strategic Resilience program components accommodate a wide variety of organizations, from large enterprises, to government agencies, to educational and medical organizations, non-profits, and small to medium sized businesses.
The concepts and components can be modified to suit the unique needs of an organization.
Throughout this website we outline the recommended activities and benefits of each component and provide online courses and workshops to train and certify professionals who want to expand their skills and help their organizations improve their strategic resilience.
These are the individuals who will lead the organizations response to a strategic threat or opportunity.
This project identifies the mission-critical strategic initiatives for the organization during the coming months and years.
Plans are developed for mission-critical initiatives to increase the likelihood of success, despite potential threats and risks.
Exercises are conducted to increase capabilities, and key metrics are identified to measure results of progress towards objectives.
These capabilities enable leaders to monitor their progress, and identify emerging external and internal threats to success.