In today’s volatile business environment, organisational resilience is key to surviving disruptions and driving long-term success.
The need for organisational resilience
We are experiencing unprecedented volatility, disruption, and change fueled by multiple converging crises. In this fragile and interconnected world, natural and manmade shocks can trigger cascading failures with wide-reaching social, environmental, and economic impacts.
Organisational resilience has become a critical strategic priority. It ensures businesses can anticipate, absorb and adapt to a changing environment while continuing to deliver value to stakeholders.
The challenge of defining and measuring resilience
Despite its importance, there is little consensus on how resilience should be defined and implemented in practice. Key drivers, strategies, and metrics for resilience remain unclear for many organisations.
Without a globally accepted definition and model, businesses struggle to measure and enhance resilience, limiting their ability to absorb disruptions effectively and thrive in a rapidly evolving environment.
Our Model for Organisational Resilience
Resilience First, in collaboration with Cranfield University School of Management—one of the UK’s leading postgraduate universities—has developed a groundbreaking new Model for Organisational Resilience.
This measurement-driven framework strengthens resilience across five dimensions: social, financial, workforce, infrastructure, and environment. You can prioritise the dimensions most relevant to your business, define outcomes and indicators aligned with your strategy and track progress through targets and thresholds.
In 2025, Resilience First, in collaboration with Cranfield University, launched a Working Group on the Model for Organisational Resilience. The working group has and will convene experts, develop case studies, design and pilot resilience training tools and courses, plan and build a resilience knowledge-base, and lead ongoing sessions, events and communications to support and promote the Model. The Model for Organisational Resilience and Working Group feedback have been incorporated into the Draft International Standard (DIS) 22316.
Ready to strengthen your organisation’s resilience?
Resilience First has established itself as the leading business network focused on organisational resilience. In the coming year, we will be further mobilising representatives from our network, engaging thought leaders, and consulting key stakeholders to develop a robust and comprehensive “by business, for business” measurement-led approach to organisational resilience.
- Contribute or sponsor – If you are interested in contributing to or sponsoring our Organisational Resilience Programme, please email Theo Bachrach at contact@resiliencefirst.co.uk for more details.
- Download the preview of the Model – Get a detailed overview and discover how it can benefit your organisation
