Risk and Resilience
Strategy tools in the Risk and Resilience category.
16 tools
- Calculated risks — Weigh the odds and the downside deliberately before you commit, instead of guessing and calling it confidence.
- Competitive Blind Spots — Map what you see that rivals don't, what they see that you don't, and what nobody sees yet.
- Competitive Scenario Planning — Build a few plausible futures around your biggest uncertainties, then war-game how rivals move in each.
- Contingency Planning — Decide now what you'll do if a specific bad thing happens, before you're the one it's happening to.
- Crisis Management — Prepare, respond and recover from events that threaten the business, decided before it happens, not during.
- Disaster Recovery Plan — Decide in advance how systems and data come back after a disruption, calmly, before the crisis hits.
- Early Warning Scans — Systematically watch weak signals in the outside world so shocks stop arriving as surprises.
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework — Organise cyber-risk work into six functions - Govern at the centre, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover around it - to find your actual weak
- PEST and PESTEL Analysis — Scan political, economic, social, technological (plus environmental, legal) forces before committing to a strategy.
- Resilience Strategy Framework — A loop for organisational resilience: anticipate, absorb, adapt, recover, and feed what you learn back in.
- Risk Management — Name what could go wrong, rate it by likelihood and impact, and decide the response before it happens.
- Risk Management Framework — A repeating cycle - context, identify, analyse, evaluate, treat, review - that gives risk management a shared process.
- Scenario Planning — Build a handful of plausible futures around your biggest uncertainties, then pressure-test your strategy against each.
- Strategic Scenario Planning — Cross two critical uncertainties to frame four futures, then rehearse decisions in each before one becomes real.
- Supplier Evaluation — Score suppliers on quality, cost, delivery and reliability to decide who to keep, develop or drop.
- Sustainability Assessment Frameworks — A standard set of criteria for measuring and reporting environmental, social and economic impact.