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The Role of Strategic Decision-Making on Business Resilience

6/27/2022

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​How can we measure business resilience? A Bain Resilience Index measures the resilience of individual companies. 
the role of strategic decision-making on business resilience
A Bain index is 100-point scale that assesses a company's resilience based on the statistical relationship between performance during a crisis and a wide range of readily observable metrics including scale, growth, margin, asset intensity, leverage, liquidity, and geographic and product concentration.

The bottom half of the index represents firms without economic advantage or scale. These smaller firms often struggle during crises because they have limited bargaining power and weak cash flow. The following list summarizes some of the characteristics of resilient organizations. Use this list to measure your company's resilience and take action accordingly. Also, keep these characteristics in mind as you build your strategic plan:

Importance of strategic decision-making for building business resilience:
Taking strategic decisions is crucial to business success. It allows for rapid transformation of operations in times of adverse conditions, which leads to greater overall organizational resilience. But building resilience doesn't come cheap. Like any investment, resilience requires consideration of the size and probability of losses and the costs and benefits of mitigating them. A number of factors play a role in the evaluation of resilience, including actuarial science.

Strategic resilience encompasses three essential elements: strategy, decision-making, and execution. When combined, organizations that anticipate volatility and act accordingly will flourish during good times and bad. The role of finance professionals is valuable in fostering a culture of ambiguity. However, it cannot be done alone. A culture of ambiguity needs a team that can work together to make good decisions in a complex, volatile environment.

Characteristics of a resilient organization:
Resilience is a key characteristic of an organization. It helps it deal with a variety of challenges and stresses and continues its operations even in the face of major disruptions. It is often the result of specific training that empowers its employees with the psychological capital needed to deal with major challenges. Here are the characteristics of a resilient organization. Read on for a closer look. We will look at each characteristic in more detail.

Resilient organizations are constantly adapting. Leaders need to adapt their strategies and value propositions to meet market changes and competition. Agility and flexibility are core characteristics of resilient organizations. Agility and a mindset that embraces uncertainty are necessary to stay ahead of the competition. Resilient organizations must be open to new ideas, manage change and respond quickly to unexpected obstacles. And they must be willing to change their approaches to ensure that their strategy stays relevant.

Impact of pandemic risk on business resilience:
The impact of COVID-19 on business resilience has provided a wake-up call for many companies. In fact, eight out of 10 companies believe that an enterprise-wide approach to risk management is essential to solving complex issues and maintaining operational resiliency. Many companies are now incorporating lessons learned from the pandemic into their own pandemic response plans, broadening their view of risk to include a broader range of potential risks.

Another important factor that should be considered in the context of pandemic risk management is concentration risk. A concentration of risk in a particular area, such as financial services, is a concern for directors and managers. Dispersed virtual environments may offer helpful diversity. Companies that successfully operated virtually during the pandemic may find that their virtual operations were more effective. In addition, reimagining work processes to be virtual is another way to improve operational resilience.

Importance of lead metrics:
The Covid-19 pandemic demonstrates the value of building resilience for a business. The Covid-19 pandemic and the Ukraine crisis are just two recent examples of situations when organizations needed to build resilience to keep up with global competition. The first incident demonstrated the need to institutionalize this strategy before the lessons begin to fade. By analyzing the importance of lead metrics in business resilience, organizations can better leverage their capabilities and invest in the future.
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In addition to leading indicators, organizations can use lagging and lag metrics to measure operational resilience and drive towards strategic goals. They should focus on metrics that meet the SMART framework. SMART targets are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant to the organization and time bound. Lead metrics can also identify emerging risks and opportunities that can disrupt an organization's business model or strategy. If the performance measures are not aligned with the strategic goals, the organization may not be able to adapt to changing conditions and adapt to a crisis.
​How fast a decision is made and how good is that decision determines how far the business will thrive.
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