Resilient Thinking : Protecting Organisations in the 21st Century, Second Edition.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wood, Phillip, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ely : IT Governance Ltd, 2023.

Summary:

Understand how organisations think, plan and deliver on the resilience 'mission' and how they should adapt when challenges arise As the title suggests, Wood argues that all employees need to adopt 'resilient thinking' in order for their organisation to survive unprecedented circumstances.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Preface

About The Author

Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction to the second edition

Chapter 1: A world of difficulty

Thinking about the context

Slow and rapid onset - Changing pace

The flimsy connections that hold us together

COVID-19 and Russia

Communication in the interdependent world

Information and perceptions in society - Technology, messages and management

Chapter 2: Looking to our future

The future and resilience

Predictable and unpredictable

Thinking about impacts

How far ahead can you see?

Do you want to see?

Try facing realities - An example

Bias, prediction and organisational failure

Forecasting disadvantages

Looking ahead

Scenario studies and strategic foresight

Summary

Chapter 3: Organisational resilience - Principles and ideas

Definitions

Ability

An organisation

Anticipate and prepare

Respond and adapt

Incremental change v sudden disruptions

Sudden disruptions

Survive and prosper

Shock absorption

VUCA

Functions and components - And conflict

Criticality in organisations

Systems

Time

Phases of response and recovery

Phase attributes

Impact analysis and response

Preparedness

Barriers and accelerators of capability

Consequence perception changes - Changed environment?

Business fit

Money matters

The structures of resilience

Thoughts on plans and people

People as a problem

Looking in the right direction

Persuasion and sales

Chapter 4: The spaghetti bowl of resilience

The secret art

Challenges and silos

Thoughts on resilience planning

Parts of the whole

Making the parts coherent

The business context

Chapter 5: Crisis

Thinking about crisis

Crisis in context

A crisis case study - RMS Titanic.

Crisis influences

Levels of understanding

Standard responses

Roles and capabilities of effective crisis responders

Summary and conclusion

Chapter 6: Organisational behaviour influences

Organisational risk and impact preparedness

Why most organisations are unprepared

Resilience management - Capability and culture

The selection and allocation of resource for resilience

Attributes of prepared organisations

Human factors in organisational resilience

Failure, cause and effect

Hierarchies and power

Compliance and deference

Self-analysis

Spooks and snipers

Summarising organisational behaviour

Chapter 7: Breaking free from conventional thought

The twenty-first century checklister

The failings of experience

Continuity of operations

The stovepipe and the silo (again)

Thinking your way out of it

The concept of creative dissent

Chapter 8: Problems and responses

Facing problems

Thinking

Event and incident blending

Thinking like your problem

Risks

The pond and the pebble

A thinking strategy

Research and what it revealed

Chapter 9: Conclusions

Further reading.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Wood, Phillip Resilient Thinking

ISBN:

9781787784208

OCLC:

1381094726