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What is Resilience?
Resilience is the ability of an individual, organisation or a technology to resist the affects
or to recover from an unfortunate event.
The key point here is to continue to meet business objectives, whether it be service delivery,
manufacturing production or other metric.
Note, resilience is not defined as restoring things to the way they were pre event. Sometimes
replacing or rebuilding destroyed equipment is difficult, time challenging and impossible.
Resilience is about achieving business objectives. This may mean, newer technology may be required,
outsourcing of resources or development of new innovative solutions in order to achieve
the same capability in a different manner
According to Wikipedia the following definition - Resilience is the property of a material
to absorb energy when it is deformed elastically and then, upon unloading to have this
energy recovered. In other words, it is the maximum energy per unit volume that can
be elastically stored. It is represented by the area under the curve in the elastic region
in the Stress-Strain diagram.
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