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Van Thinking Approach to Resilience Management Solutions

There is a growing awareness in the corporate environment that a combination of ensuring organizational resilience and pursuing business continuity, can no longer be taken for granted. It requires focused attention. However, in most cases this effort is limited to a focus on sustainable development (i.e. minimising the negative impact on the physical environment - something which Van Thinking does not focus on) and disaster and risk management (in other words only phases 1 and 2 below).

Van Thinking offers services to assist companies in their effort to implement and enhance their resilience management (also called business continuity) by offering a four-phased solution. These phases follow on from one another in the sense that they represent stages of maturity in the resilience management effort of your organization. By evaluating yourself you can identify how far you have developed in your effort to implement resilience management in your organization, and what your next steps should be. These phases are

Minimising Vulnerabilities: This first phase is the obvious starting point to become more resilient, namely to identify high-risk vulnerabilities and take steps to overcome them. This is often handled via the risk management effort of the company.
Avoiding Collapse: Disaster management becomes important in this second phase. We offer services to assist you in identifying possible, although highly unlikely, events that would threaten your company's existence and how to be prepared to survive such events. We also assist you in designing and putting in place generic capabilities that will assist your organization to respond quickly and effectively when disaster does strike (even though you might not have foreseen that specific kind of disastrous event).
Embedding Resilience: In the third phase we provide services that will enable you to design and implement necessary capabilities and organizational changes that would cause your organization to be inherently more resilient in nature. Doing this only makes sense once the previous two steps are taken care of.
Thriving on the Unforeseen: It is immediately obvious that a company that knows how to not only survive an unforeseen event, but also how to utilise the high energy and flexibility brought about by high-impact unforeseen events best will have a strategic advantage to others who have not developed this capability. Van Thinking provides a service to make you resilient so that your chance of surviving is not only very high, but you can learn to thrive on exploiting the unique opportunities made available by such events. The fourth and last phase of maturity in resilience management gives you this edge.

While these four phases are all important, they need to be developed and implemented by moving from phase 1 to 4 in order to ensure that you build a robust resilient management capability in your company. Van Thinking has the expertise to provide you with the support to design your own custom implementations of these as you take on this very important aspect of strategic management, namely resilience management (business continuity).

One of the ways in which you can promote resilience in your organization is by responding appropriately to organizational complexity. We offer both a free email course and an online video on this subject.

You might also want to read more about what resilience management (or business continuity) is.

If you are interested ...

If you are interested to find out more, you can

Contact Us to discuss your requirements
Apply to attend our next online webinar on Resilience Management (or Business Continuity), where we give an overview of these four phases and answer your questions.

Other Services regarding Resilience Management (Business Continuity)

Find out what other services we offer in the field of resilience management and business continuity. We use the term resilience management, because we believe that it covers the wider scope of all four phases, rather than to focus primarily on disaster management.

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