Bryan Strawser

By now, you understand the parts of a high-performing resilience system. You’ve seen the eight core domains that must align. You’ve explored the enabling functions that make them work together. But understanding the model isn’t the same as operating it. This article is about that next step: implementation. How do you take the Resilience Operating …

How to Implement the Resilience Operating Model™Read More

Strong plans aren’t enough. Clear roles aren’t enough. Even aligned domains — business continuity, crisis, DR, comms, cyber — aren’t enough on their own. You can have all the right capabilities and still watch your response fall apart when it matters most. That’s because resilience doesn’t succeed with good content. It succeeds with good systems. …

The Enabling Functions That Make Resilience Actually WorkRead More

In most organizations, resilience doesn’t break because one team failed — it breaks because too many teams respond independently. Cyber launches an incident response. Crisis Management assembles a separate team. Comms writes a message that Legal hasn’t reviewed. Meanwhile, business continuity and disaster recovery leads are still trying to understand the impacted systems or processes. …

The 8 Core Domains of Resilience: What Every Organization Must AlignRead More

Most organizations today don’t suffer from a lack of effort when it comes to resilience. They’ve invested in plans, training, and infrastructure. But when disruption hits, the response still feels slow, disjointed, or misaligned. That’s because most organizations have resilience components — not a system. Business continuity lives in one place. Crisis management in another. …

Introducing the Resilience Operating Model™: A System for Performance Under PressureRead More