ABSTRACT
This part introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters. The part examines risk management and organisational resilience design at the construct and measuring/modelling interface. It discusses an infrastructural approach to resilience systems design for large, complex, distributed organisations. The part deals with a critique of the 'silver bullet' argument in this space, how industry standards might be applied to risk-and-resilience system. It examines compelling research evidence that supports the efficacy of using the sorts of guidance to aid thinking and shape the design of an organisation's reasoning system. A natural corollary of the uses of the term system will, of course, be the temptation to want to view them as simply the component parts of a unified risk and resilience system for an organisation. Also for much larger organisations the second dimension, a key determinant of risk and resilience efficacy, refers to whether the organisation operates in any Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous environments.
