Putting Organizational Resilience into Practice

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Resilience as an organizational capability has developed over the past decade, but it is not yet a fully mature discipline; it is still in the emergent phase.

The reality is that the majority of organizations are creating their own roadmaps for navigating their organizational resilience journey and there is not a consistent approach. This is something that Airmic and the BCI identified and decided to explore together. Both associations have been at the forefront of resilience development for many years and have a commitment to developing knowledge resources to help businesses and organizations to understand how to develop resilience capabilities. It was, therefore, a natural progression for Airmic and the BCI to come together to develop joint guidance in this area, and this document is the first output from this partnership.

Based on seven detailed case studies conducted during 2025, Putting Organizational Resilience into Practice has two key aims. The first is to re-examine the Principles of Resilience previously developed by Airmic and determine whether they remain relevant. The second is to consider what these principles look like in today’s organizations – highlighting key themes and innovative practices from the case studies, with particular emphasis on the governance of resilience. Putting Organizational Resilience into Practice is a practical guidance document for organizations. It is not aligned to any particular standard and recognises that while there is awareness of the existence of organizational resilience standards amongst professionals, the actual adoption and use of those standards appear to be low.

Putting Organizational Resilience into Practice is aimed at resilience professionals who are tasked with leading and developing resilience strategies within their organizations, as well as C-level executives and boards who are seeking to understand how to structure the governance of resilience and to increase the maturity of organizational resilience capabilities.