Disrupt or Be Disrupted

Cultivating resilience through innovation

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The concept of 'business resilience' traditionally centers on an organization's capacity to handle failures and endure disruptions. However, truly resilient businesses go beyond mere response strategies; they proactively design and rigorously test plans to prevent such setbacks. In fact, the most resilient businesses don’t just withstand disruption, they create it. In this discussion, AWS Enterprise Strategists Miriam McLemore, Chris Hennesey, and Clarke Rodgers will explore the notion of business resilience through the lens of a 'disruptor’s mindset.' (September 2024)

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Highlights

How C-suite leaders define resilience

00:42 - How a CISO defines business resilience
01:44 - How a CFO defines business resilience
02:40 - How a CIO defines business resilience
05:15 - Cultivating a culture of resilience

From planning to incentivizing

07:19 - Resilience planning (scenario playbooks, incident response, etc.)
08:27 - The disruptor’s mindset: how resilience enables innovation
12:22 - Identifying your risk appetite and getting leadership on board
15:17 - Enabling and incentivizing a resilient workforce
19:03 - How to be a resilient leader with a disruptor’s mindset

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Miriam McLemore:

"In today's world, it's about getting rid of tech debt. It's about having platforms that can carry you into the future; the access to data that we need to leverage tools like generative AI. If you are a company that's behind in cloud, in generative AI, you've got an issue with your resiliency going forward."