Setting up project teams to be resilient
Enterprises need resiliency to respond to anticipated, or sudden, crisis directly affecting operations and expectations. EkaLore looks at enterprise fitness through the lens of three qualities: Agility, Resilience, and Sustainability. Resilience is the ease with which an enterprise or organization can return to a pre-disruption state.
Commonly experienced disruptions today (July 2022):
· Labor Strife – possible USA West Coast labor strife,
· Ukrainian-Russian incident
· Energy crisis from skyrocketing costs, unavailability, or transformation
· Water/Food Shortage
· Heat Emergencies
· Power Outages
· Lingering logistics problems
· And… a global pandemic in progress
These crises interfere with critical operations directly, and indirectly:
· Suppliers (key upstream materials like petrochemicals, semiconductors, metals)
· Resources (human resources/talent, government orders restricting availability)
· Logistics (time to market, lengthening production times, shipping no longer available)
· Customers (if no energy or communications, then no consumption of digital goods)
Some crisis can be anticipated and there’s at least a little time for resilient operations to act:
A) Energy and power outages (Summer Heat / Winter Cooling)
B) Materials shortages (petrochemicals, metals, semiconductors)
C) Skyrocketing costs (downstream)
In every case, it’s certain that enterprises have to do something. It follows that enterprises are maintaining communications, protecting plant and equipment, avoiding shutdowns, and maintaining the talent keeping things going.
Next release we’ll talk about what needs to be done immediately to execute for resilience.
EkaLore has written many articles about resilience, as well as the related concepts of Agility and Sustainability. You can read other entries at www.ekalore.com/ars
If you’re looking for advice on how to improve your organization’s resilience set up a 20-minute free consultation with a senior analyst. We’ll be happy to share a few ideas with you!
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