Digital Resilience

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DIGITALLY BOUND

Getting the C-Suite and Board Up to Speed on Digital Resilience

We are Homo dictyous, a networking species. In recent years, the most important networks that bind our global civilization have been digital, and each new digital network is increasingly extensive, interconnecting more and more aspects of our lives. Nevertheless, despite its ubiquity—or maybe because of it—for most of us, the mechanism of digital interconnectivity remains a black box. Data goes in, the products of data come out, and who knows what lies between? Not many. A cadre of engineers, a handful of IT managers, and far fewer executives. This chapter is a primer—for executives and other organizational leaders—on the digital networks that all at once bind, ...