Foreword

Publishing information

This British Standard is published by BSI Standards Limited, under licence from The British Standards Institution, and came into effect on 31 August 2022. It was prepared by Subcommittee CAR/1/1, BS 65000 Organization resilience, under the authority of Technical Committee CAR/1, Continuity and resilience. A list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained on request to the committee manager.

Supersession

This British Standard supersedes BS 65000:2014, which is withdrawn.

Information about this document

This is a full revision of the standard, which was originally published in 2014 as a guide. The revision is based on a body of evidence, from both academia and industry practice, which has emerged since then. This body of evidence shows increasing convergence in the core principles and practices that contribute to more effective organizational resilience. This includes a broader understanding of the scope of organizational resilience, addressing the organization’s wider system within which it operates and across the five dimensions of finance, operations, human, social and environment. The revision introduces the following principal changes:

• the standard has been rewritten as a code of practice, which provides clear recommendations to organizations;
• the scope and context of organizational resilience is clarified and is broader, incorporating the wider ecosystem and five dimensions of finance, operations, human, social and environment;
• the standard considers both defensive and progressive dimensions, for continuity and adaptability;
• the core cultural and design principles for organizational resilience are set out; there are four cultural and four design principles;
• practices and techniques for developing organizational resilience are recommended; and
• the standard considers maturity, measurement and assurance of organizational resilience, and provides an updated maturity model in Annex A.

This revised standard also builds on existing standards and frameworks that organizations might have in place, for example recognizing that business continuity is a constituent discipline that supports organizational resilience.

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BS 65000:2022

Organizational resilience. Code of practice

Current

Published:

31 Aug 2022