The Basics of Resilience Engineering

Resilience is top of mind for many companies, top management, and experts.

But, to be honest, most people mistakenly think it's the same as:

• Risk Management

• Crisis Management

• Security Management

• Business Continuity Management

This is not true. Unfortunately, you won’t get very far if you approach it that way.

What is it, though?

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For all others, I’ll explain the differences of Resilience Engineering.

Resilience focuses on systems. That means you have to approach it differently than all the above-mentioned topics.

To make a system resilient, you can’t just optimize the parts (e.g., as we do in Business Continuity Management) and hope that the whole is resilient.

There will always be a weakest link.

If you don’t find and eliminate the weakest link, it doesn’t matter what you do to harden all the other parts.

The weakest link defines when your system breaks.

Let’s see how you can find the weakest link:

First, we have to apply Systems Thinking.