DIMENSIONS OF RESILIENCE<\/b><\/p>\n
Steve DeAngelis,<\/strong> founder of Enterra Solutions <\/a><\/strong>was kind enough to comment <\/a>on my recent post<\/a> over at his Enterprise Resilience Management Blog<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n “This is an important discussion. While we’re grateful for Mark’s positive comments about Development in a Box, we are even more grateful that we can join a conversation about the ways in which the Enterprise Resilience Management framework interacts with and transforms organizational culture. Enterprise Resilience Management is not just a technology solution — though it has a significant technology component. And it is not just a management methodology, though it starts with a comprehensive assessment of critical assets and the processes and best practices that support them. Rather, the framework combines best practices and technology to create an entirely new organizational architecture. Methodology and technology, working together, break down the barriers between organizational silos and create new systems — both cultural and technological — for whole-organization response.<\/p>\n The resilience of an organization depends only in part on its willingness to adopt new technologies. Resilience also depends on the ability of people — leaders, line managers and staff — to create a resilient culture.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Very true. An important point which leads me to explain why I consider “Resilience<\/a>” to be a meta-principle<\/strong> <\/a>governing an emerging world where the governing paradigm will be a complex system <\/a>of systems. Evidence of resilience as a phenomena is manifested across both an enormous scale of magnitude and in multiple domains, including:<\/p>\n 1. Complexity Theory<\/a><\/p>\n 2. Network Theory<\/a><\/p>\n 3. Ecological-Environmental-Economic systems<\/a><\/p>\n 4. Social Networks<\/a><\/p>\n 5. Security Policy and Counterterrorism<\/a><\/p>\n 6. Human Psychology<\/a> ( see NYT here<\/a>)<\/p>\n There are probably infinite possibilities here.<\/p>\n I would expect that any in any adaptive complex system , regardless of the field in which it is traditionally categorized, evidence of resilient characteristics will be readily discoverable ( at least until you reach quantum or cosmological extremes of scale, there I’d have to hedge my hypothesis and let more qualified people <\/a>speak to that). I would further suggest, more to Steve’s point in his post, that overlapping levels of resilience<\/strong> will be highly beneficial.<\/p>\n