Key Themes of ISO 22316
ISO 22316 provides a number of Attributes for organisational resilience. Here are some we consider key to success:
For your Organisational Resilience programme to be effective, all the relevant interested parties need to buy-in to it’s purpose.
Understanding your Context
As with Annex SL based ISO standards, understanding the context of your organisation is important to ensure the arrangements you put in-place are effective.
Leadership
Providing leadership throughout the organisation is important to achieve the intending outcomes of your organisational resilience programme.
Supportive Culture
Embedding a culture of resilience within the organisation will help to ensure that as time goes on the plans and resources for the resilience system will be adapted to suit new requirements.
Sharing Knowledge
Knowledge sharing across interested parties and learning from previous experience contributes to the continual improvement of the system.
Resources
Defining the resources needed to effectively operate Organisational Resilience.
Co-Ordination of Management Disciplines
Encouraging a cross-functional approach to Organisational Resilience, which Assent will well placed to cultivate, with specialist consultants in disciplines including Information Security, Cyber Security, Health & Safety, Environmental Management and more.
Continual Improvement & Managing Change
A staple of ISO management systems, continual improvements and managing change within the system.
Resilience Across Management Disciplines
The standard references a number of management disciplines that can support the guidance of ISO 22316 including:
How our ISO 22316 Consultants can Help
We can evaluate your existing organisational resilience programme across management disciplines and advise on improvements.
Our multi-skilled ISO 22316 consultants can utilise their knowledge of other ISO standards, and work with our Risk Management team to incorporate ISO 22316 principles in to an integrated management system.
