Resilience Management Framework

Resilience Management brings together risk management and business continuity planning into common framework; combining a strategy of managing identified risks with an ability to respond effectively to any crisis, irrespective of whether or not that event had been previously identified as a risk

Evaluating and improving system resilience is an important partner to traditional risk management techniques.

Risk Management typically focus on the probability and consequences of particular events occurring, that have not been thought of, and therefore are not assessed and managed.

By approaching the problem from a different angle, Resilience Management provides one strategy for dealing with these events.

Resilience Management shift the focus from “what could make the lights go out” to “it doesn’t matter what makes the lights go out, how are we going to deal with it if they do?”

In order to reach these goals the following issues have been identified and ranked as high priority for the research:

A1. Understand the NZ context
A2. Understand how organisations could be impacted by hazard events
A3. Study of how organisations dedicate resources to prepare for and responds to hazards
A4. Clarify the reason for investments in emergency planning and how obligations to customers, regulations, government policy and accounting practices influence these

A5. Present the strategies available for increasing resilience
A6. Understand the effort and the appropriate level of investment required for improving organisation resilience