In a follow-up of our post ‘How Risk Management Must Evolve into Resilience Management‘, let’s examine what are the approaches that would be required in a new discipline of Resilience Management.
First, Resilience Management should be an extension, a complement of Risk Management. Risk Management works and this foundation should not be dismissed.
Resilience Management should focus on the ‘unknown-unknowns’, developing scenarios generally believed to be highly unlikely or too extreme, to examine how the system would respond. Resilience Management is the appropriate response to unpredictable complex systems.
In addition, Resilience Management should measure the capability of the system to adapt by reconfiguring itself, reassigning resources or seeking additional resources, adapting its structure.
To be effective, Resilience Management should also address a higher level system than the one too often examined. For example, it should consider airspace safety management and not just individual aircraft safety; or the entire capability of a society to respond to major industrial accident instead of the sole safety of plant.
The main focus of Resilience Management should be the capability for the system to effectively respond (and not just react) at all times.
Resilience Management is a new discipline to be invented and developed for the Collaborative Age. Are you ready to take the challenge?
