Enterprise Resilience, embrasing Change in a Turbulent World


Course Overview

Embracing change has become an imperative in today’s turbulent world. This short course provides a practical introduction to the concept and practice of enterprise resilience—defined as the capacity for organizations to survive, adapt, and grow in the face of turbulent change.

Natural and biological systems have evolved a variety of resilience mechanisms.Likewise, designing for resilience can help business enterprises to overcome disruptions—whether from human or natural causes—and to improve their adaptability to changing conditions. Resilience principles can be incorporated into the design of new technologies, products, processes, and competitive strategies.

The course draws extensively on case studies of companies that have adopted resilience strategies and provides tools and methods for implementing “design for resilience.”

Online and self-paced

  • 4 modules.
  • 3 months to complete.
  • 10 hours of recordings.
  • 3 webinars with the instructor.
  •  GWU Environmental and Energy
  • Management Institute Certificate.

Price: $550

Topics covered will include the following:

• Resilience in energy systems-balancing sustainability with reliability

• Resilience in safety and security-enhancing enterprise risk management

• Resilience in global supply chains-ensuring efficiency and business continuity

• Resilience in product development-considering the full product life cycle

• Resilience in crisis management-recovering from unforeseen disruptions

• Resilience in environmental affairs-adapting to climate change and resource scarcity

Meet the Instructor:

Joseph Fiksel is one of the original thought leaders in the field of enterprise sustainability and resilience. He has consulted for corporations, government agencies, and non-profit consortia in the U.S. and around the world. Joseph co-founded the Center for Resilience at The Ohio State. He later took the role of Executive Director of the Sustainable and Resilient Economy program, forerunner of the university-wide Sustainability Institute at Ohio State. Joseph is the author of the seminal book in this field, Resilient by Design. Download a bio for Dr. Fiksel.

Course Outline

• Four recorded modules comprise the Enterprise Resilience Course.

Live Webinars

• Includes three live webinars with the instructor.

EEMI Certificate

• Issued to students completing a final quiz.

Course Content

Module 1 - Overview (~2 ½ hr.) 

Basics of Risk and Resilience 

  1. Turbulence and Complexity 
  2. Building Enterprise Resilience 

Embracing Change 

  1. Beyond Risk Management
  2. Resilient Supply Network 

Illustrative Examples

  1. Product Industries: Nokia, L Brands, Cisco, Dow 
  2. Service Industries: Veolia, DHL, Cardinal, AEP 

Module 2 - Systems Thinking (~3 ½ hr.) 

Triple Value framework 

  1. Interdependence of Economy, Society and Environment 
  2. Sustainability & Resilience: Synergies and Trade-Offs 

Practitioner Case Studies

  1. Dow Chemical
  2. American Electric Power
  3. L Brands/Victoria’s Secret
  4. IBM Smarter Cities

Module 3 - Implementation (~3 hr.) 

Design for Resilience 

  1. Fundamental Design Principles
  2. Stepwise Methodology

Resilience Toolkit

  1. Resilience Indicators
  2. Resilient Analytics & Simulation

Application Examples

  1. Dow Chemical Supply Chain Simulation
  2. EPA New England Regional Simulation

Module 4 - Looking Ahead (~1 hr.) 

Future challenges

  1. Information technology
  2. Urban community resilience
  3. Environment and energy

Conclusions

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