Executive Summary

OUTLINE

TOPIC:

Strategies for Developing Resilience

PROBLEM:

Most Organizations Lack Resilience Strategies to Ensure Business Continuity

Contributing Factor

COVID-19 Pandemic

Implications

Business Disruption

I. Introduction

a. Define strategies for resilience & why resilience strategies are important for business continuity

b. Most organizations lack resilience strategies to ensure business continuity

c. Examples of resilience strategies businesses lack

d. What are the implications for business continuity if the problem is not resolved

II. Statement of the Problem

a. Topic of focus is strategies for developing resilience

b. Specific problem addressed in the project: Most organizations lack resilience strategies to ensure business continuity.

III. Background of the Study

a. Define resilience strategies

i. Examples of resilience strategies

b. Why developing resilience strategies are important for business continuity

i. Examples of developing different types of resilience strategies and their benefits

c. Most organizations lack the resilience strategies for business continuity

i. Why do they lack these strategies?

ii. Examples of lacked resilience strategies

iii. The most In-demand resilience strategies that organizations need

iv. Organizations also need strategies for adaptability, diversity, safety, and technology

d. What are the implications for organizations if problem is not resolved

i. Business closure

ii. Loss of customer retention

iii. Financial revenue loss

e. Reopen and Reinvent Respond, Recover, Thrive Resolve, Resilient (only a paragraph)

IV. Purpose of the Study

i. Investigate factors that contribute to the problem of organizations lacking resilience strategies to ensure business continuity

V. Scope and Limitations

a. CSULA Undergrad Students Enrolled in Spring 2021 that were employed during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020

b. Inaccurate numerical analysis due to the ongoing pandemic

c. Research findings cannot be generalized to all industries

d. Organizations may not fully understand the importance of developing resilience strategies

VI. Research Method

a. Quantitative method

b. Administered survey on Survey Monkey

c. Compare and contrast businesses before and during pandemic

d. Ten survey questions specifically tied to the topic and the problem.

e. 100 survey responses required

VII. Definition of Terms 

a. Resilience

b. Business Continuity

c. Adaptability

d. Covid-19

VIII.  Review of Literature (Themes)

a. Business Resilience (Heading 1)

b. Lack of resilience strategies

c. Covid-19 amplified the problem (contributing factor) (Heading 2)

d. Implications: Business Disruption

i. Explain business disruption

ii. Provide examples from a particular industry

iii. Failure to reduce business disruption will prevent the ability to successfully to Reopen and Reinvent Respond, Recover, Thrive, Resolve, Resilient