Moving towards resiliency is more than just implanting policy and procedure; it is a process that takes organizations on a winding path requiring patience and tolerance. A good deal of learning will have to take place during the trip and that is why it is necessary to have patience and tolerate the learning process. Organizational Resilience: Managing the Risks of Disruptive Events - A Practitioner's Guide provides essential management tools that ensure you will succeed in moving an organization towards becoming more resilient.

The book explains organizational resilience and how to manage risk through the use of the ANSI/ASIS SPC.1-2009 Standard. It outlines a concise, clearly understandable approach to successfully addressing the various challenges and techniques necessary to plan, prepare, and implement organizational resilience management in any organization. The authors cut through the complexities and identify the key issues and methods for successful implementation. They focus on organizational resilience management as an integral component of an overall business and risk management strategy. They also explore how organizational resilience creates value for the organization and can be applied to both the private and public sectors.

Building a resilient organization is a cross-disciplinary and cross-functional endeavor; therefore "practitioners" may come from a variety of disciplines, all of which contribute to helping the organization achieve its objectives. This book provides valuable and much-needed guidance that enables practitioners to achieve the desired goals of effective organizational resilience through cost-effective methods.

Exploring the concepts and methodologies of how to implement enterprise-wide organizational resilience management, this book explains the necessary steps for effective disaster preparedness.¿It identifies the principles and techniques associated with threat assessment and business impact analyses and explains the cost advantages of implementing organizational resilience management. The text¿details the steps needed tötrain, exercise, evaluate, and maintain¿disaster plans within the framework of organizational resilience management. It alsödescribes the cost-benefits of establishing a resilient culture and processes.

ANSI/ASIS SPC.1 is now the accepted standard for security managers. Until now, however, there was not a reliable tool to use to plan and implement it. Organizational Resilience by Leflar and Siegel is that tool.If anything, the book supplies almost too much information. Using it as a guide, any security manager can understand the standard for security preparedness and continuity in crisis planning, then put it back into effect.For someone new to the standard, there is a section on disruptive events and management techniques for organizational resilience and adaptability. There are templates that are helpful and take the manager through the steps needed to implement the requirements within the standard.Seasoned security managers who are already familiar with the ANSI/ASIS.SPC1 Standard can go straight to sections on preparing or reviewing existing continuity plans with step-by-step methods for getting started, implementing, reviewing, and renewing a plan.The book's planning steps with charts are extremely helpful and easy to use. Additionally, the authors include a case study of a successful implementation of the standard, which is extremely valuable. Any security manager tasked with putting the standard into action should include this book in their library.-Terry V. Culver, CPP, CMAS (Certified Master Antiterrorism Specialist), security program specialist, Georgia Tech Research Institute