Our Enterprise Resilience Survey shows how enterprise resilience and efficiency converge
Of more efficient and profitable organizations are more resilient than their peers, compared with just 36% of less efficient and profitable firms.
Resilience investment gap
More than half (56%) of lower efficiency/profit organizations say they’re underinvested in resilience, compared with just 29% of higher efficiency/profit organizations. Leaders of efficient organizations have found that modest buffers such as inventory and backups pay for themselves — and that preventing disruptions perpetuates higher performance.
Efficiency and resilience: Key stats
Where they’re investing
It’s no surprise that cyber resilience leads as the top investment priority, reflecting organizations’ focus on protecting their digital infrastructure. At the same time, strengthening workforce resilience is emerging as a critical area of focus.
Strengthening workforce and talent
Executives see workforce and talent as a top resilience priority because AI and automation are reshaping roles and required skills. Building adaptable, future-ready teams ensures organizations can capture the benefits of new technologies without leaving critical capability gaps.
Stress testing financial models
Surprisingly, stress testing financial models ranked last, which may imply that execs view this as a well-established, compliance-driven activity rather than a forward-looking driver of resilience.
AI’s role in enterprise resilience
Proactive risk identification is the most common use for AI in enterprise resilience, as almost half of our survey respondents are using AI for this purpose. Moving from periodic risk registers to continuous monitoring turns weak signals (supplier delays, cyber chatter, weather, social) into lead time. Success measures include gains in mean-time-to-detect and recovery hours avoided.
Drive efficiency by strengthening resilience
The link between enterprise resilience, efficiency and profitability is real. More efficient and profitable companies are more likely to:
Formally champion workforce resilience
Consider risk outcomes when cutting costs
