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Organizational Resilience

What is Organizational Resilience?

An organization's ability to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and adapt to incremental change and sudden disruptions to survive and prosper.

Governance

What the standards actually require on organizational resilience

Requirements naming organizational resilience across 4 standards, quoted from the control text.

ISO 223165 controls

The principles form the base from which a framework and a strategy for greater organizational resilience can be built, put into practice and evaluated. An organization's resilience: grows when behaviour lines up with a vision and purpose that people share;

iso-22316::4.1 · 4.1 Principles of organizational resilience →

Clause 3 sets out what organizational resilience is: from the foreword and the reports written on the standard, an organization's capacity to foresee, get ready for, react to and adjust to both gradual change and abrupt disruption so that it survives and thriv...

bs-65000-2014-guidance-on-organizational-resilience::3 · 3 Overview of organizational resilience →

The organization must set up, write down, put into operation, keep and keep improving a management system for organizational resilience, covering security, preparedness and continuity, that conforms to the Standard, and must decide how it will satisfy each req...

asis-spc-1-2009-organizational-resilience-standard::4.1 · 4.1 An OR management system established, documented, implemented, maintained and continually improved →

The organization should foster among its people positive attitudes and a culture true to its core values that upholds its expectations, policies and procedures consistently, and recognises: risk awareness (continually identifying and understanding organization...

iso-22361-2022::5.2.4 · Culture →

Questions people ask about organizational resilience

What is Organizational Resilience?
An organization's ability to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and adapt to incremental change and sudden disruptions to survive and prosper.
Why is Organizational Resilience important for compliance?
Organizational Resilience is a key concept in Governance. Understanding organizational resilience helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 1,016 frameworks with 316K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Organizational Resilience?
Organizational Resilience appears in the requirement text of ISO 22316, BS 65000:2014 - Guidance on Organizational Resilience, ASIS SPC.1-2009 - Organizational Resilience Standard, ISO 22361:2022. Across these standards we have identified 9 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Organizational Resilience?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how organizational resilience applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 1,016 frameworks.

See how Organizational Resilience applies across compliance frameworks

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