Organizational Resilience

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1. Organizational Resilience is the ability of an organization to adapt and respond to incremental change and sudden disruptions, recover, resume, restore and learn in order to survive and prosper.


Organizational Resilience is:

Notes (1): the end goal of a properly designed and implemented resilience program

Notes (2): not about reacting to one-time disruption or rebounding from a setback

Notes (3): a holistic shift in how an organization operates.


2. Organizational Resilience is the ability of an organization to absorb and adapt to a changing environment to enable it to deliver its objectives and to survive and prosper.

Source: ISO 22316:2017

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Related Term: Operational Resilience, Business Continuity Management (BCM), Business Resilience

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BCMBoK 0: BCM Fundamentals CL 1B: Foundation (BC)


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BCMBoK 0: BCM Fundamentals CL 1C: Foundation (CM)


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