Properties of Resilient Organizations: An Initial View
While formal definitions of resilience, and its associated field of application, resilience engineering, have yet to be developed, one of the simplest explanations is contained in the following description. Other equally valid definitions are discussed in other sections of this book. I do not claim primacy of this over others, but for this discussion, it suits my purpose.
Resilience is the ability of an organization (system) to keep, or recover quickly to, a stable state, allowing it to continue operations during and after a major mishap or in the presence of continuous significant stresses.
The property in question of the organization is often ...
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