Productive capacity
Discuss employees’ ability to work, disruption duration, additional workload and the capacity of workarounds.
Financial and productivity outputs
Give resilience decisions a clear financial context.
Connect existing recovery capabilities and assumptions with productive capacity, recovery expenditure, revenue loss, liquidity and investment priorities. Give your CFO and operational leaders a shared basis for discussion.
Understand the business implications of your assumptions.
A recovery plan has financial and workforce consequences. OCRR helps make those consequences visible under the arrangements and assumptions being assessed.
The initial assessment uses industry defaults. Guided brings your organisation’s information into the review. Elevated compares proposed improvements against the Guided position.
Recovery expenditure
Examine recovery labour, specialist support and relevant third-party costs under the stated assumptions.
Investment context
Compare the operational and financial rationale for proposed policy, process or technology improvements.
Revenue, liquidity and business continuity
Consider how reduced revenue and recovery expenditure affect your ability to fund restoration, meet ongoing commitments and continue operating as a business. Use the outputs to discuss available liquidity and funding needs with your finance team.
Read the outputs as decision support.
| Output area | Business question | What to check |
|---|---|---|
| Workforce and productivity | How do the recovery assumptions affect employees’ ability to work? | Affected workforce, duration, productivity assumptions and practical workarounds. |
| Operational and revenue disruption | Which business activities depend on the capabilities under review? | Critical-service relationships and how revenue, contribution and productivity effects are treated. |
| Recovery and specialist costs | What resource commitment do the assumed restoration arrangements require? | Labour requirements, specialist rates, external support and recovery scope. |
| Proposed improvement comparison | Does a change justify further investigation or investment? | Comparable assumptions, implementation and ongoing costs, feasibility and evidence of the proposed effect. |
| Liquidity and ability to operate | Can the organisation pay for recovery while sustaining essential business commitments through reduced revenue? | Available cash, funding access, recovery outgoings, revenue assumptions and continuing obligations. Finance evidence is needed to assess actual liquidity. |
Compare improvements before committing resources.
Through the Elevated Resilience TTPs Assessment, you can appraise policy, process and technology changes against the Guided assessment. The comparison helps frame cost benefits, trade-offs and the business case.
Your assessment baseline
Record the existing recovery arrangements, workforce assumptions and financial treatment that underpin the Guided outputs.
Your proposed change
Change the agreed assumptions, compare the resulting outputs and assess the complete cost and feasibility of implementation.
Keep the business case credible.
- Use consistent assumptions when comparing the Guided and Elevated positions.
- Include implementation, transition and ongoing costs when appraising an option.
- Avoid counting revenue disruption, lost contribution and productivity effects more than once.
- Separate modelled differences from cash savings that can actually be realised.
- Validate proposed capability improvements with appropriate operational and technical evidence.
Financial outputs express the implications of stated resilience and recovery assumptions. They do not predict a specific attack, establish an annual occurrence rate or guarantee savings. A change in OCRR rating is not a percentage reduction in financial risk.
Bring finance and operations into the same discussion.
Your CFO can challenge costs and assumptions. Your COO can examine service priorities and productive capacity. Your CIO and CISO can explain the capability changes and evidence needed.
That shared discussion helps leadership understand why an investment is proposed, what benefit is being appraised and what still needs to be established before approval.
Explore the connected outputs.
Clarity today. A more resilient tomorrow.
Make your next resilience decision better informed.
Start with a no-cost, industry-based Executive Summary. Then decide whether to refine the assessment around your organisation and explore improvement options.
