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Business Resilience Fundamentals Overview

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Benefits of Business Resilience Fundamentals

For Individuals

  • Involvement in the emerging Resilience Professional community.
  • Applicable to all sectors, transferable knowledge.
  • Enhances the credentials of anyone wishing to enhance their own performance or take up a leadership position.
  • Supports a better working environment for individuals by creating more autonomy, mastery and purpose, thus improving motivation.
  • Certified professionals are sought after for roles such as Business Continuity Manager, Risk Analyst, Resilience Officer and Operations.

For Organizations

  • It will benefit organisations that use an Investment Committee, Transformation, Development, P30 organisation, Programme, Change or Project Management teams.
  • Enables the refreshing of their Product and Service portfolio/s, improve Processes and Practices, and adopt a more professional business culture.
  • Be early adopters of a new category of employees with a Resilience Professional qualification.
  • Enables organisations to implement the model which improves how to anticipate, assess and address risks across all levels.

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    Study materials

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    Business Resilience a practical guide to sustained progress delivered at pace
    Book (English)
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    David Roberts, Islam Choudhury, Serhiy Kovela, Sheila Roberts & Jawwad Tanvir

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    Learn the fundamentals of the Business Resilience Framework to discover how to build and enhance organizational resilience

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    Brilliant course to bring awareness of what is required for business resilience, to lay the foundation and to get you thinking of where you are now and where you want to be, both individually and in the team you are currently operating.

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    I was fortunate to be a part of this really educational course, which gave me a thorough understanding of the principles, cycle, and elements of business resilience. Brilliant authors and instructors, deserve praise. Such a massive, massive amount of knowledge!

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    The business resilience course provides a good insight as to how organizations can continue to make progress and excel during hard times like Covid-19. The various implementation strategies make it easy to understand how the framework can be implemented within an organization with existing processes and how the frameworks and domains can be adapted to suit individual organizational needs.

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    The course is very helpful to give a fundamental understanding as to how the Business Resilience Framework can be implemented in today's VUCA world.

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    Business Resilience is an important factor for business continuity and success. The emphasis on progress is often neglected. Business Resilience Framework provides an opportunity for organizations to formally implement structured, yet agile process to be more adaptable and gain a competitive edge.

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    Videos

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    APMG Partner Spotlight: What is Business Resilience?

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    What is Business Resilience Framework (BRF) and Why You Should Use It

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    Business Resilience v Business Continuity | Business Resilience with David Roberts and Serhiy Kovela

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    What is Business Resilience? | Business Resilience with David Roberts and Serhiy Kovela

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    Leading the Implementation of the Business Resilience Framework (BRF) by ResilienceProfessionals

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    Risk and Change Management | Business Resilience with Sheila and David Roberts

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    Generic attribute Influence up to level 7, Generic attribute Competence up to level 7, Continuity Management up to level 6

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