Business Resilience in Times of

Uncertainty
In times of volatility, the most successful leaders turn uncertainty into opportunity,
activating a business resilience strategy that is forward-looking, resilient, and
competitive. No matter their starting point, BCG can help.

Business resilience is the capacity to absorb stress, recover critical functionality, and
thrive in altered circumstances, and it has become a key indicator of a company’s
overall health. Resilient companies enjoy better outcomes than their peers in three ways:
an external shock can have a lesser impact on their performance, the speed of their
recovery can be faster, and the extent of their recovery can be greater.

Downturns and disruptions are inevitable. Whether companies lose momentum or—
preferably—adapt and advance comes down to one thing: business resiliency.

How Our Business Resilience Framework Can Help

No two resilience journeys are the same, with each path forward individually based on
region and industry, so BCG’s business resilience consulting experts help leaders
recognize their starting points and guide them each step of the way. Our business
resilience framework—sense, adapt, thrive, and transform—equips leaders managing
uncertainty with a head-on strategy and a more long-term approach for business
resilience planning.

BCG’s sense, adapt, thrive, and transform approach is a dynamic strategy mindset that
helps leaders chart their course for the future and build a more resilient enterprise, no
matter their starting point. Our business resilience consulting teams help companies
reinforce their positions and create functional advantage, even at times of disruption.

Contact our business resilience consulting team

Client Success in Business Resilience

A major health care company faced challenges hitting its growth targets in an
increasingly competitive market. BCG developed a resilience transformation plan to
enable the company to re-invest in growth. We pursued end-to-end cost management
and top-line business resilience tactics including streamlining the organizational
structure, automating processes, and optimizing where and how to invest across product,
marketing, and distribution, leading to a +40% increase in stock price by the
completion of the transformation.