BS 65000:2014

What is BS 65000 about?  

BS 65000 is a British Standard that focuses on organizational resilience. BS 65000 gives guidance on building organizational resilience by: 

• Clarifying the nature and scope of organizational resilience for top management 
• Identifying the principal components of resilience to enable an organization to review its resilience and to implement and measure improvements 
• Identifying and recommending good practices already defined in existing standards and disciplines. 

Who is BS 65000 for? 

BS 65000 on guidance for organizational resilience is useful for: 

• Organizations  
• Senior management  
• Human resource management  

Why should you use BS 65000?  

Resilience is a strategic objective intended to help an organization to survive and prosper. A highly resilient organization is also more adaptive, competitive, agile, and robust than less resilient organizations. 

BS 65000 is the ability of an organization to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and adapt to everything from minor everyday events to acute shocks and chronic or incremental changes. 

BS 65000 gives guidance on achieving enhanced organizational resilience. BS 65000 describes organizational resilience, articulates its benefits, and explains how to build resilience. To aid the integration and coordination of the various disciplines that are essential for resilience, the standard references other standards, published and in preparation, relating to these disciplines.