Climate & Environment

Strategic Resilience

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Definition

Strategic resilience is the capacity of an organisation, economy or system to anticipate, withstand and adaptively transform in response to deep disruptions — climate change, geopolitical fragmentation, technological shifts, pandemics — that alter the environment in which strategy must succeed. It differs from operational continuity planning in addressing structural change: business models, supply networks and assumptions, not just incidents, and draws on resilience thinking from ecology (adaptive capacity, transformability) applied to strategy.

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This reference provides supporting context for how “Strategic Resilience” is defined and used.

Overview

How it is used

The concept structures enterprise risk management, climate scenario analysis, national security and supply chain policy, and adaptation planning for economies and regions.

Why it matters

Efficiency optimises for a world that no longer exists; strategic resilience builds for the range of worlds that might.