Operational Resilience

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1. Operational Resilience is the capability to absorb a shock to operations to incremental change to the disruptive events and then rebound to a level of operations acceptable to management, employees and stakeholders.
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Operational Resilience:

Notes (1): requires an organization to look at risk through a service perspective rather than the current practice, which focuses on management by risk category.

Notes (2): includes the resilience of systems, processes and people.

Notes (3): focuses more on actual business processes, such as an entire dealing service (and not only Treasury) for the bank or the assembly line the organization uses to prepare its work product.

Notes (4): is a necessary component of organizational resilience.

Notes (5): is an outcome that benefits from the effective operational risk management.

Notes (6): has the end goal of a properly designed and implemented resilience program

Notes (7): is not about reacting to one-time disruption or rebounding from a setback

Notes (8): is a holistic shift in how an organization operates.

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Related Term: Organizational Resilience, Business Continuity Management (BCM), Business Resilience, Cyber Resilience, Data Resilience, Digital Resilience, Relational Resilience, Supply Chain Resilience, Technology Resilience, Operational Resilience.

BCM Institute's Professional Training and Certification

OR Body of Knowledge OR Competency Level
OR BoK 1: P1 Plan CL 1OR: Foundation (OR)


OR Body of Knowledge OR Competency Level
OR BoK 1: P1 Plan CL 1ORA: Foundation (ORA)


BCMBoK Competency Level
BCMBoK 1: Project Management CL 1B: Foundation (BC)


BCMBoK Competency Level
BCMBoK 1: Project Management CL 1C: Foundation (CM)


BCMBoK Competency Level
BCMBoK 1: Project Management CL 1CC: Foundation (CC)


OR Body of Knowledge OR Phase-Stage
OR BoK 4: P1 Plan S4 Confirm Risk Appetite

BCMBoK Competency Level
BCMBoK 1: Project Management CL 1D: Foundation (DR)

(Source: Business Continuity Management Institute - BCM Institute)

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