​Testing and Strengthening Global Resilience 

 

​The two- to three-day workshop does not generate detailed assessments or plans. Rather, it is aimed at clarifying critical uncertainties and aligning management teams on the gaps, vulnerabilities and issues they need to focus on to improve organisational resilience at the global level. Emphasis would vary with the context, but potential elements include:

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• Concepts and context – resilience, uncertainty, geopolitics, and an overview of the current geopolitical system  

• Mapping cross-border links and flows against global and regional tensions and hotspots to identify weak links and vulnerabilities

• Mapping stake and exposure against political risk across operating countries (or areas therein) for a sense of the organisation’s global risk spread

• Testing the organisation’s critical assumptions about the world to identify gaps and uncertainties in the premises underlying the current strategy

• What-if thought experiments of potential twists in relevant global and regional issues, to test the organisation’s preparedness for plausible changes

• What-if thought experiments of serious situations that could arise within the set of operating countries, to test preparedness for localised challenges. 

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Following the exploratory sections, the team prioritises critical exposures, vulnerabilities, risk scenarios and geopolitical factors. The workshop concludes with the joint articulation of a top-level roadmap for increasing global resilience, and priority next steps.