National foreword

This British Standard is the UK implementation of ISO 22336:2024.

The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical Committee CAR/1, Continuity and Resilience.

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This British Standard was published under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 31 October 2024.

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Introduction

This document provides guidelines on formulating policy, designing strategy and determining priorities for implementing an organization’s resilience strategy. It describes how organizations can better anticipate and respond to change that will enable them to deliver their objectives and to survive and prosper.

ISO 22316 established the foundational principles for organizational resilience and a set of common attributes demonstrated by the organizations that have adopted those principles.

Organizations increasingly recognize the challenges of disruption arising from natural hazards, climate change, global conflicts, pandemics, epidemics and other human-made crises impacting upon society and disrupting businesses. Consequently, organizations in the public and private sector are looking to initiatives that will contribute to an enhanced state of organizational resilience.

This document provides guidelines on how organizations should be alerted to risks. It supports the measure whereby an organization determines necessary tactics so that its vision and strategic direction provide a lasting advantage, thus avoiding being complacent of its past or current success.

Figure 1 illustrates the framework for an organizational resilience policy and strategy.

The guidelines in this document are based on the principles of organizational resilience and the development of essential attributes as set out in ISO 22316.

1 Scope

This document provides guidelines on the design and development of an organizational resilience policy and strategy. It includes:

how to design and formulate a resilience policy;
how to design strategy to achieve the objectives of a resilience policy;
how to determine priorities for implementation of the organization’s resilience initiatives;
how to establish a cooperative and coordinated capability to enhance resilience.

This document is applicable to organizations seeking to enhance resilience. It is not specific to any industry or sector. It can be applied throughout the life of an organization to enhance resilience.

This document does not provide guidance on the development of an organizational resilience capability.

2 Normative references

3 Terms and definitions

4 Principles

4.1 General

4.2 Policy formulation

4.3 Strategy design

4.4 Strategy implementation

5 Organizational context

6 Attributes of policies and strategies for resilience

6.1 General

6.2 Policy formulation

6.3 Strategy design

6.4 Strategy implementation

7 Enabling behaviours

7.1 General

7.2 Adaptable

7.3 Inclusive

7.4 Integrated

7.5 Reflective

7.6 Prepared

7.7 Robust

7.8 Innovative

8 Framework for resilience policy and strategy

8.1 General

8.2 Leadership and commitment

8.3 Policy formulation

8.4 Strategy design

8.5 Strategy implementation

8.6 Evaluation

9 Process

9.1 General

9.2 Understanding the context of the resilience policy and strategy

9.3 Communication

9.4 Policy formulation

9.5 Strategy design

9.6 Strategy implementation

10 Continual improvement

10.1 General

10.2 Performance evaluation

10.3 Implementing continual improvement

Bibliography

BS ISO 22336:2024

Security and resilience. Organizational resilience. Guidelines for resilience policy and strategy

Current

Published:

31 Oct 2024