Economic resilience

Succeeding in challenging times

Organisations across the globe are confronted with geopolitical instability, cybercrime, and increasing trade tariffs. If you are not adequately prepared or focus solely on reactive resilience, you may be exposed to significant risks.

But how do you balance managing these challenges with investing in the future? How do you manage the expectations of various stakeholders and which interests do you consider in your strategic decisions? At PwC, we work with you to consider all perspectives, enabling you to minimise the impact of disruption.

Connecting Risk, Resilience, and Crisis

To minimise impact, it is essential that every critical part of your organisation, system, service, process, or activity is resilient, can recover, or has continuity plans in place. At PwC, we understand the impact of today’s world and examine your operations from multiple angles. Whether through the lens of cyber risks or trade barriers, we combine the diverse expertise available within PwC. With these competencies under one roof and our solutions, we can truly support you.

Crisis management

If a crisis has such a significant impact that your operations are severely disrupted, crisis management must offer a flexible and dynamic approach. This approach enables you to manage unexpected disruptions, continue to pursue strategic objectives, and return to a viable operational state.

The impact of rising trade tariffs on your operations

Developments in trade tariffs are causing considerable uncertainty and unrest. The trading landscape has also become more complex due to a flood of new regulations, such as emissions taxes, sustainability due diligence in the supply chain, additional levies, sanctions, and export controls. Our customs and international trade experts effectively guide your interactions with customs authorities, helping you minimise the impact on your operations.

Our Global Centre for Crisis and Resilience supports this. It is a network of more than a thousand crisis and resilience specialists in over 65 countries. We have assisted thousands of organisations worldwide before, during, and after a crisis: from building robust resilience within the organisation to strategically navigating disruptions as they occur. In times of crisis, the strength of our network becomes evident, as we can bring together the right specialists from around the world and support you locally.

Building Organisational Resilience

Organisational resilience, also known as business or enterprise resilience, requires your organisation to continuously evolve, be protected against external impacts, and at the same time be able to adapt, create value, and maintain a competitive advantage. However, there can be tension between being resilient and being agile. Balancing these two competing demands can be challenging.

The three core components of organisational resilience:

• Strategic resilience: the ability to evolve and build agility within the organisation

• Operational resilience: the ability to maintain critical operations during disruptions

• Financial resilience: the ability to preserve capital and cash flow during disruptions