Why we need to think the unthinkable

Immediately after September 11, 2001, "critical infrastructure" and "vulnerability" seemed to be the new buzzwords. More recently "resilience" has been added to that list, and for a good reason. In a business sense, resilience is the ability to recover from any unforeseen event and how quickly one can return to normal day-to-day operations. Probably the most vulnerable and most critical infrastructure in our time are global computer networks, such as the Internet.In an article in the Enterprise Resilience Management Blog, highlights how the key to resilience is not only understanding how systems work but how they break, and how being able to think outside of the proverbial box and seeing potential challenges before they emerge is one of key elements in building enterprise resilience. To think the unthinkable, to plan for the unthinkable is maybe not what is most on people's mind and more often than not, it is only after a crisis that our thinking shifts. Then however, it may be too late.