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Section One
Section one discusses the role of resilience, and why it is becoming an important part of everyday business.
Section Two
Section two looks at the five key elements of organisational resilience which can be used to deliver improved
bottom line business results.
Section Three
Section three looks at integrated approaches delivering improved business performance and creates competitive
advantages.
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disruption. To have organisational resilience the
organisation needs to:
Section Three – Integrated anticipate and understand emerging
threats;
approaches deliver improved business understand the impact of threats on the
performance and creates competitive business, supply chain, the community in
advantages which they operate and upon employees
lives;
The world is evolving at an ever increasing rate; develop and maintain supportive
some people even believe that the advances in partnerships with critical stakeholders in
knowledge and technology are making modern their supply chain, sector and community;
society untouchable by disruptive events. This respond to and recover from disruptions as
belief is challenged by Debora MacKenzie, of the a unified whole of organisation team;
New Scientist, who wrote ―As the networks that adapt to disruptions and react flexibly to
connect us become ever more intricate and finely restore routine functions and strengthen
tuned, modern civilisation is becoming increasingly the organisation;
vulnerable‖ 1. Mackenzie suggested that ―once ensure staff members are willing and able
society develops beyond a certain level of to support the organisation to achieve
complexity it becomes increasingly fragile, where a objectives in times of adversity;
minor disturbance may bring everything crashing leadership must have clear direction while
down‖ 2. In his book The Collapse of Complex enabling devolved problem solving.
Societies, Joseph Tainter discusses a possible
cause of this being diminishing returns – a situation
where an ever-increasing level of effort and
complexity is required to support the necessary
returns. As returns diminish and complexity
increases, society will inevitably reach a point
where complexity will outweigh the return, resulting
in the balance of societal resilience being
unfavourable.
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© Organisational Resilience Pty Ltd: 85 Guthrie Street, Osborne Park, Western Australia. 6017
+61-(0)8-9446-2099
www.organisationalresilience.com.au
© Organisational Resilience Pty Ltd: 85 Guthrie Street, Osborne Park, Western Australia. 6017
+61-(0)8-9446-2099