Resilience Maturity FAQs
The decisions we make today will shape the systems of tomorrow
What is disaster resilience maturity?
Resilience maturity is about your business’ capacity to respond to short term shocks as well as long term challenges, and also looks at whether your business survives and thrives in the face of those challenges. In this context, the shocks and challenges we’re looking at are specifically related to disasters.
Organisations will be at varying stages of resilience maturity ranging from those who accept the adversity of a disaster and cease to operate, through to those who are not just surviving but who are also able to improve on their business-as-usual and possibly take advantage of market opportunities.
What does resilience maturity look like at a strategic level?
At a strategic level, resilience maturity strategies are embedded in the business-as-usual of our organisations and are both driven and endorsed by the management committee/board.
Organisations that have developed and implemented resilience maturity strategies as part of their business-as-usual suite of strategies are able to bounce forward from a disruptive event to find themselves in a stronger position than before that event occurred.
These strategies are dependent on a cycle of research that informs operations, which in turn informs the next round of research and so forth.
Why is resilience maturity important for regional CEOs/senior management and their boards/management committees?
Resilience maturity strategies are important for regional community services organisation CEOs/senior management and their boards/management committees because:
- Resilience maturity strategies need to be embedded in the overall organisational strategy to be most effective
- They are more susceptible to more frequent natural disasters than their metropolitan counterparts
- It is this level of management that is responsible for the organisational strategy, risk management, resource and budget allocation, ensuring solvency, and defining and modelling the organisation’s culture. These are all elements requiring consideration in an effective resilience maturity strategy.
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