The Resilience Imperative: Bend Don't Break

Why the organisations leading through disruption aren’t building stronger defences. They’re redesigning how they operate.

 

Every year, technical recovery gets faster. But organisational recovery is a different problem entirely.

When ransomware runs through an entire network in 30 seconds, convening a committee to make a decision is already too late. When a major third party goes down, you quickly discover how many of your other suppliers share the same substrate. And when the share price doesn’t recover when the servers come back up, it becomes clear that technical recovery was only ever part of the answer.

In this video, Bryan Hurcombe, Director at DCR Partners, unpacks what it really means to build an organisation that bends but doesn’t break. Drawing on real-world examples from across the sector, he explains how to define the absolute minimum your organisation must protect to remain viable, and why starting there changes everything, not just how you respond to a crisis, but how you make strategic decisions, take calculated risks and pursue growth with confidence.

 

What you'll take away:

 
✓  Why disruption no longer happens one event at a time
✓  The three clocks of an incident: technical recovery, organisational recovery and time
✓  A practical framework for defining your organisation's floor
✓  The five disciplines that distinguish organisations designed for disruption
✓  Why understanding your floor enables you to take risks others cannot
 
Drawing on hands-on experience, Bryan will share 25 minutes of practical thinking on what it really takes to build this capability. 

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Who should watch this:

This is for senior leaders in financial services responsible for operational resilience, crisis management, risk oversight or board assurance, particularly those who suspect their organisation is working harder than ever but hasn’t fundamentally changed how it operates.

If you’ve ever sat in a board meeting and confidently answered the question “are we resilient?” but couldn’t answer “are we designed for the world we’re operating in now?”, this video will reframe how you think about that gap.

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