Resilience Reimagined: A Practical Guide for Organisations

Discuss future failure

Consider connected impacts

Understand essential outcomes

Define impact thresholds

Balance strategic choices

Stress test thresholds

Enable adaptive leadership

New opportunities can also be modelled and measured within alternate scenarios of the future. This enables organisations to examine readiness to address changes and to test decisions and judgements about how to use resources. Modelling can also lead to examination of the effectiveness of networks of individuals and organisations to address change together. Using modelling and simulation a rounded view of the benefits of resilience may be obtained. Modelling and simulation can examine strategic choices and transition paths to planned goals, such as zero carbon. These transitions can be broken down into phases indicating the uncertainty and volatility of each phase, and the resources likely to be needed to continue the transition effectively in the real world. It gives an opportunity to test longer-term possibilities by providing information about specific choices we should (or should not) make today (for example, those that might limit our options some years down the line).

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