Digital Resilience, The Assurance Horizon - in Your Hands

You have probably met that passionate practitioner who comes laden with knowledge, experience and understanding, and with many battle scars of crises fought and won.

Their long crafted skills lie in articulating the appropriate Resilience needs that are as varied as the plethora of organisations they look after. So it's probably no wonder that business leaders trust their experience and validation when looking for assurance. Simply and robustly.

So what do they struggle with? We listened to the experts and this is what they had to tell us, and what they wanted.

Ask any of these well worn sages where their difficult choices lie and you will probably be surprised.

It is not in simplifying complex business structures into strong and robust operating platforms that assure both clients and stakeholders alike. Neither is it in identifying the most important things you do or the plans and testing which unifies and empowers your teams in a time of crisis. That all part of their crafted skill sets.

The debate, in the hallowed corners of convention halls, has, for a long time, been about the tools with which they go about their craft.

The pros and cons, the resources that are needed, how to get access to information and then the ability to use modern methods of business, rather than artificial, intelligence to extract that, all at those pressing times you when you need it most.

On one side common office software has always had its appeal in coming shipped with the organisation. Yes of course it has its limitations when deploying any type of specailist discipline and often it needs a very well grounded subject matter expert at its heart to lead they way and keep it serviced. You can craft it to our organisation. But its is still general office based software, and traditionalists are comfortable using it to do what they do best - Resilience.

It consumes resources, and thats a challenge. Getting data out - like depednancies, priorities, critical suppliers, technology recovery, cyber response and the unending list that is needed can be frustrating. It needs resources because it needs looking after.

Commercial software. For the progressive that has always been the future. There are many vedndors in a market of 750m USD today that is predicted to hit 3.31 billion by 2034. The variety of offerings is wide and the choice is growing, the shop window is ever expanding.

Many vendor began in continuity & resilience, and have moved into their own specialist areas or been guided by growing regaulation and industry standards. Operational resilience, third party risk management, technology recovery, risk management and so the list goes on.

Some built their own, others have acquired competitors and added to their core portfolio some new additional bolt ons moving into interactive dashboards, risk management, insurance claims and mass notification tools. They are all good, they are all efficient and of course come at an additional cost. They are certainly better than stitching up those flat spreadsheets, many think.

They too have their limitations, only they are different. Someone had to designed them with their way of thinking and your organisation will have to bend a little tp mould your organisation and fit that process. Often some modules don't interact as well with each other, and when it comes to requesting changes or fixing 'features' you can often be waiting in line with other subscribers.

So both have their limits and the bars at coffee shops at those dusty industry conferences will continue to fill after the session bell has sounded, to the high debate of their various advantages.

But what if you could have the best of both worlds?

Well, its into this arena we have already taken proven steps to challenge the limitations of each solution by getting the best from both.

For the past year we have deployed digitised Resilience. Working with several organisations, large and small, its has been shipped with its own tool kit crammed with changeable content which is available to 'try before you deploy', a feature we believe is just simply unique to our industry.

Individual organisations have already personalised this digital platform quickly and efficiently and met their organisations needs. It feels like them, and they have done it themsleves. Using no more than super user skills available on well known industry common platforms globally.

From Operational Resilience, Continuity Management, Technology, Third Party Risk, Cyber Management, Crisis Control, Mass Notification we have adopted a common interlocked approach that is as individual as the business it supports.

We are confident that it is the open source future of Resilience, in Your Hands. Just ask some of our experienced industry piers.

We are looking forward to bringing you the future.