Embracing the Black Swan: How Resilient Organizations Survive and Thrive Under Geopolitical and Macroeconomic Risks

ISBN-13: 9783031293436 / Angielski

Khalil Dindarian

Opis

In a world that is becoming ever more complex, the ability to deal with ‘black swan’ events – such as climate change, wars, natural disasters, economic recession, and pandemics – has become critical for business, technical and political leaders. This book, aimed at both academics and practitioners, shows how to create a framework for resilience that will help organizations not only survive but to thrive. The author examines some organizations that are often seen as highly resilient and considers how ‘Resilience Thinking’ affects different disciplines and environments, including politics, economy, and technology. His findings are used to demonstrate how resilience works and how it is applied in practice. A discussion on how problems are addressed in practical terms, and of the relationship between resilience and other knowledge areas such as complexity theory, strategy, and risk management – from both top-down and bottom-up perspectives – is included. Situations are identified where there is a particular need for resilience, and an overview of the best ways of implementing a resilience process is offered. 

Spis treści

Part I      Embedding Complexity Thinking in the Decision-making Process

Introduction

Chapter 1 Strategy

Chapter 2 Resilience

Chapter 3 Complexity

Chapter 4 Enterprise Risk Management

Chapter 5 Building the Conceptual Enterprise Resilience Framework

Part II     Case Studies and the Enterprise Resilience Framework

Chapter 6 Case Study I: Delivery of a Complex Railway Program

Chapter 7 Case-study Analysis

Chapter 8 Case Study II: Enterprise Risk Management

Chapter 9 Development of Enterprise Resilience Framework (ERF)

Chapter 10 Conclusions

Chapter 11 How recognizable is the Black Swan?

Part III        Geopolitical and Macroeconomic Systems

Chapter 12 Demographics, Education, and Employment Dynamics

Chapter 13 Earth’s Resources: the challenges

Chapter 14 The Changing Nature of Politics, Globalization and Business

Chapter 15 So, in a nutshell, what is Enterprise Resilience?

 

 

 

 

 

O autorze

Khalil Dindarian has been an engineering professional and leader at Siemens since 1995. With three decades of experience, leading and executing complex portfolios covering business development & strategy, sales, and project execution, he is an expert in both the theory and practice of a range of critical areas: strategy, organizational resilience, business agility, complexity, project management, and risk-&-uncertainty management. He combined his extensive experience and his deep knowledge of geopolitics and macroeconomics to earn a Ph.D. (University of Manchester, UK) in developing resilience against emerging risks and adverse events.

Blurb

Our world is becoming ever more complex. Among the geopolitical and macroeconomic issues currently facing mankind, with serious ramifications for our future, are digitalization and technology, climate change, and globalization. Political upheaval, wars, natural disasters, economic recessions, and pandemics, have all had massive negative impacts on our society. In this new world, various governmental and organizational decisionmakers – including managers, international agencies, NGOs, political leaders, economists, science & technology innovators, and medical professionals – must all learn to anticipate and deal with these emergent risks, the integration of which, along with the management of ‘black swan’ events, has assumed paramount importance. This is the huge challenge now facing us. 

This book, aimed at both academics and practitioners, shows how a framework for resilience can be created to help modern organizations to not only survive but to thrive. The author considers some of the organizations and bodies that can be said to be highly resilient and examines how ‘Resilience Thinking’ affects different disciplines and environments. He addresses the question of how resilience works and how it is applied in practice. The relationship between resilience and other knowledge areas such as complexity theory, strategy, and risk management – from both top-down and bottom-up perspectives – is examined. Situations are identified where there is a particular need for resilience, and an overview of the best ways of implementing a resilience process is offered.