Resilience Revealed: 4 Areas Worth Considering
Government resilience anticipates the
For instance, resilient employees feel
agencies face nearly limitless obstacles.
even if it means switching gears on their
unknown. From the federal layer down, Internally, the shocks can range from
daily duties. Furthermore, these workers
are prepared for the circumstances facing
power outages to abrupt leadership
them, having brainstormed and practiced
changes. Externally, everything from
flooding to violent crime can jolt agencies out of functioning smoothly. With most of the public sector online, the hiccups are
the response and recovery steps they
take. Crucially, these people do not believe they are weighed down by leadership,
technology or workflows when encountering
no longer merely physical. Nowadays,
setbacks.
cybersecurity mishaps can cause as
much upheaval at agencies as traditional stumbling blocks.
But anticipating the unknown is not the only quality resilient agencies have. Resilient
agencies also have people, processes and technology that strengthen their overall
Subsequently, government resilience hinges on imagination and responsiveness. For starters, agencies
that cannot envision stunning moments
cannot be ready for them; agencies that cannot react rapidly to speedbumps,
meanwhile, need more time to resume
durability. Agility and flexibility link these
operations after a stumble.
three categories. Agencies with nimbler employees, tools and workflows are
Below are four areas of resilience worth
circumstances.
from each one containing information
more capable of adapting to unforeseen
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empowered to swiftly address any fiasco,
considering, with four recent developments agencies should know about this topic.
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