August 5, 2021
It has been over 17 months since COVID-19 shutdown impacted your business and personal life. Although we are on the road to recovery, as the variants continue to emerge, it is not a straight path to “business as usual.” In addition, other business threats from cybercrime, severe weather, climate change, and political instabilities continue to grow. Thus, organizational resilience remains a strategic priority to be prepared for unforeseen impacts to your business.
Building a path to organizational resilience starts with having solid business continuity management (BCM). This provides the basis for your business to prepare for and respond to disruptive events. Most organizations have BCM; however, it is critical to update regularly and perform (at minimum) annual exercises to make sure the plan works. The next step is to obtain operational resilience, expanding BCM programs to focus on the impact and tolerance levels of service delivery disruption on clients. The final step in achieving organizational resilience is where the organization resists, absorbs, recovers, and adapts to business disruption in an ever-changing and increasingly complex environment to deliver its objectives and rebound and prosper.
Why should your business achieve organizational resilience?
Organizational resilience is vital to:
If your business needs help in developing or updating your BCM or moving up to achieve
organizational resilience, Dewpoint is here to help. Our team of cybersecurity, infrastructure, and application experts can prepare your business for the next crisis.