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resilience is
essential in oUr
Post-Pandemic
fUtUre
Of the many lessons we have had to learn f or years we have been faced
with a VUCA world, exacerbated
from the current pandemic, perhaps by accelerating change, and
have needed to be prepared
the most crucial one is to ensure that for almost anything. VUCA stands
for Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and
business strategy and operations are Ambiguous, and it has always seemed
to me a useful way of conceptualising
founded on resilience. Michael Davies, CEO the fast-moving, slippery context
of ContinuitySA – enterprise resilience in which we have to survive.
specialists that recently made Waterfall The truth of that observation has been
borne out by the way the COVID-19
their home – shares his insights. emergency has unfolded at a magnitude
very few had ever expected. Of course,
“VUCA stands for
Volatile, Uncertain,
Complex and
Ambiguous”
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