'Enterprise Resilience' Touted at 'The New Map Game' Event

June 3, 2005

I just noted this news release from last night:

Enterprise Resilience is New Platform for Global Competitiveness, Says Enterra Solutions CEO DeAngelis

This sparked my interest for a couple of reasons.

First, it brought my attention to an event, The New Map Game, an executive-level globalization "war game" that apparently just concluded yesterday in Newport, Rhode Island. This simulation event seems to have arisen out of the work of Thomas P.M. Barnett, author of The Pentagon's New Map, and described on the game's Web site as "one of globalization's leading cartographers."

The ideas behind this event seem interesting to look into further. Here is an intriguing map image from the Web site:

The second aspect of interest is the idea of Enterprise Resilience being promoted by Enterra Solutions CEO Steve DeAngelis, who spoke at the event. Enterra positions itself as a provider of Enterprise Resilience Management (ERM) solutions. Yesterday's release describes ERM as "a new performance platform for sustainable competitiveness in the face of global pressures and opportunities."

In part, here is how Enterra describes the rationale behind Enterprise Resilience Management:

"According to DeAngelis, an organization becomes a Resilient Enterprise when it unifies several functions - security, compliance, information integration and business process optimization - into a single system. The system is created by identifying critical assets, establishing the rules and best practices that support the assets, then translating the rules into executable code that runs on the organization's information technology architecture. The resulting platform automates security and regulatory procedures and business actions, and enables senior managers to monitor processes and take direct action when needed ....

"Traditionally, DeAngelis explained, organizations have responded to stress in a piecemeal fashion, using separate departments to manage security, compliance, competitive intelligence and business process optimization. But the times demand a systemic approach to a systemic challenge, he said, noting that rule sets embedded into cross-organization systems allow the organization to respond as a whole. "

AB -- 6/3/05