Resilience Maturity Assessment
Understand your current capability and define the path to improvement
Organisational resilience cannot be judged by the existence of plans alone.
Effective resilience depends on whether people understand their roles, leaders can make decisions under pressure, teams can coordinate across functions and lessons are translated into sustained improvement.
GDAK's Resilience Maturity Assessment provides an objective view of your current resilience capability, identifies gaps and establishes a practical roadmap for improvement.
A clear view of where you are today
The assessment examines how effectively resilience is understood, governed, exercised and improved across the organisation. It helps determine whether current arrangements are informal and reactive, or whether they form part of a mature, proactive and continuously improving capability. The assessment can consider areas such as:
- Leadership and governance
- Incident and crisis management arrangements
- Organisational learning
- Training and competence
- Evidence and assurance
- Roles and responsibilities
- Exercising capability
- Lessons management
- Cross-functional coordination
- Continuous improvement
Resilience maturity levels
- 01
Reactive
Response arrangements are largely informal, inconsistent or dependent on individual experience.
Plans may exist, but they are not routinely exercised, validated or supported by clear governance.
- 02
Formative
The organisation has begun to establish structured resilience arrangements.
Roles, plans and processes are developing, but implementation may be inconsistent and exercising remains limited or irregular.
- 03
Adaptive
Resilience arrangements are established, understood and regularly exercised.
The organisation uses evidence, lessons and performance information to adapt plans, strengthen capability and improve coordination.
- 04
Proactive
Resilience is embedded within organisational culture, governance and decision-making.
The organisation exercises regularly, anticipates emerging risks, applies lessons systematically and continuously improves its capability.
How the assessment works
- 1
Establish the scope
We agree the organisational areas, capabilities and outcomes to be assessed.
- 2
Gather evidence
We review relevant plans, policies, exercise outputs, governance arrangements and other available evidence.
- 3
Engage stakeholders
We speak with leaders, operational teams and relevant specialists to understand how resilience works in practice.
- 4
Assess maturity
We evaluate the organisation against defined maturity criteria and identify strengths, gaps and areas of inconsistency.
- 5
Define the roadmap
We develop a prioritised improvement plan with practical recommendations, milestones and measures of progress.
What you receive
Each assessment provides:
- A clear resilience maturity rating
- Identification of strengths, gaps and dependencies
- Prioritised recommendations
- Suggested milestones and measures of progress
- An evidence-based assessment of current capability
- Findings across the assessed capability areas
- A practical improvement roadmap
- A baseline for future reassessment
More than a maturity score
The purpose of the assessment is not simply to assign a level.
It is to help your organisation understand what needs to improve, what should be prioritised and how progress can be demonstrated over time.
The output can support strategic planning, investment decisions, assurance activity, exercising programmes and wider resilience development.
Build a measurable path to greater resilience
Whether your organisation is beginning to formalise its resilience arrangements or seeking to validate an established capability, the assessment provides a clear and evidence-led starting point.