While NYLRF had already engaged strategic leaders around key risks, they wanted to go further and bring operational practitioners and business continuity leads together to test how strategy translated into action on the ground. How would information be accessed and shared? How well would organisations coordinate? And where did confidence and capability vary across the system?

SIRA combines an assessment of organisational readiness with an immersive, facilitated scenario exercise. For NYLRF, this included a large-scale power outage scenario, designed to reflect realistic risk and introduce increasing pressure over time. The delivery was supported by the Resilience Advisors Network, whose operational expertise and advocacy helped strengthen the exercise and champion the value of SIRA across the resilience community.

What emerged was a clearer, shared picture of resilience across the partnership. Strengths were highlighted, variation in preparedness was revealed and practical challenges were surfaced, all of which wouldn’t have appeared in a standard assessment or tabletop exercise. The process also provided a strong evidence base to support honest conversations, clearer priorities and immediate action.

Read the full case study to explore what NYLRF learned, how partners responded under pressure and how SIRA supported more coordinated, system-wide resilience.

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