INFONEX 2016

Practical Measures to Increase Adaptive Capacity

Ron Andrews

INTRO Organizational Resilience vs. Adaptive Capacity

Why Adaptive Capacity

Practical Measures to increase Adaptive Capacity

Proving your case to Senior Leadership

Interactive Exercise & Debrief

RESILIENCE

ADAPTATION

(+)

Preferred State

Appealing

Praiseworthy

Ideal

(+)

Realistic

Practical

Achievable

Cost Effective

(-)

Multi-Dimensional

Problematic Constructs

Unattainable End State

Unrealistic

(-)

Overlooked

Consequential Acceptance

Uncoordinated

Underfunded

Working at Cross-Purposes

Reliance on Outdated Behaviours

ADAPTIVE

STABILIZING

Traditional Command & Control Structures

Technical Competencies

Rational Strategic Planning

Multiple Staff Hierarchies

Homogenous Orientation

Segmented Enterprise Orientation and Outlook

Reactive and Risk Averse

Fixed Capital

Transformational Leadership

Cross-functional & All Level Work Teams

Cross-functional Technical Competencies

Culture of Learning and Diversity

Incubation of Innovation

Holistic Enterprise Orientation & Outlook

Proactive and Risk Tolerant

Flexible Capital

Adaptive Capacities Stabilizing Capacities

PRACTICALMEASURES

Adopt an Organic & Holistic Perspective

Aggressively Pursue Knowledge Gaps

Exploit Opportunities

Learn from Experience

Foster Innovation

PRACTICALMEASURES

Embrace Uncertainty

Do not Compartmentalize Issues

Maintain Continual Scenario Planning

Establish Hazard & Vulnerability Assessments

Apply Cross-Competency Training

Initiate Cross-Discipline Fertilization

PROVINGYOURCASE

Employee Engagement and Retention

Cross-functional Competency Development

Redundancy in the face of Adversity

Improvement in Disruption Management

Cost Efficiencies (Program, Staff)

Process Efficiencies (Lean)

Reproducible and Measureable

Creation of Product and Service Value

EXERCISE Form 2 Discussion Groups

Review the Case Study

Discuss Possible Adaptive Strategies

Offer 3 Adaptive Capacity Choices

Explain your Choices

SOURCES

Thank You!

Adaptive Capability (2015) Maturity Model

Branlat and Woods (2010), “How do Systems Manage their Adaptive Capacity to Successfully Handle Disruptions? A Resilience Engineering Perspective”, AAAI Fall Symposium

Gajewski, Maria (2012) “ What is Adaptive Capacity?”, Changing River Consulting

GSDRC (2014) “Disaster Resilience Topic Guide”

Myburgh, Webb and Seville (2012) “Adaptive Capacity and Resilience”, Continuity Central (1) (4)

Nyamwanza (2012) “Livelihood Resilience and Adaptive Capacity: A Critical Conceptual Review”, Journal of Disaster Risk Studies (4) (1)

Zawada (2012) Organizational Resilience: What it Could, or Should, Mean in the Standards Landscape, Continuity Insights (digital version)