Which service must your organisation sustain under pressure? Examine what that service depends on, what preparations already exist and where improvements are needed. Develop a resilience diagnosis, a 90-day plan for your area and a brief for the next management decision.
Examine three connected processes in your area and their shared resources. Use incident information to develop improvements, redesign a handover or decision process and record owners and tasks in a 90-day plan. Work with authorised information from your organisation or a case used throughout the course.
In the case, order intake, dispatch and delivery depend on an externally operated planning system. The budget cannot cover both general training and a tested fallback. Select three improvements, explain your priorities and work through the fallback using available resources and time. Adjust the plan when a handover fails.
What you will work on
Assess a defined area using evidence about leadership, learning, processes and dependencies
Evaluate disruption impacts for three processes and improve a handover or decision process
Justify three action priorities against alternatives, including cost and effort assumptions
Trace the loss of a shared resource through all three processes
Who it is for
Resilience leads
Business continuity and risk managers
Cross-functional improvement leads
Topics
Mandate, critical services and stakeholders
Culture, leadership and learning from incidents
Roles, decision boundaries and handovers
Disruption impacts for three processes and recovery priorities
Partner dependencies and cooperation needs
Connections between continuity, risk, security and HR
Dependencies, information gaps and diagnostic assumptions
Prioritising under resource constraints and documenting budget assumptions
Action sequencing, ownership and progress reviews
Your result
Your workbook links three processes and their shared resources to a fallback that you have worked through using available resources and time. The 90-day plan records who owns each improvement and which handovers need to work.
Prerequisites
Experience of organisational processes and authorised information about one area, three connected processes, their resources and disruption evidence. An anonymised case or a course case can be used.
Format and approach
Planned self-paced study with approximately 16 hours of work, an individual draft and self-checks with explanations. The self-checks help you revise your work.
Organisational resilience depends on how leadership, processes, resources and cooperation interact. Your leadership team examines a part of its organisation, bases its assessment of strengths and gaps on concrete observations and develops a prioritised action plan with responsibilities and initial steps for the next 90 days.
Use a disruption scenario to assess whether a critical service could resume within its agreed tolerance. Consider when work actually resumes as well as when the system returns.
What needs to recover first after a disruption? You examine the services in an area and explain the recovery order to colleagues in operations, IT and finance. You create a business impact analysis for your organisation or a course case.