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Resilience
Building resilience to face the future with confidence
Discover how resilience helps organizations navigate uncertainty, act with confidence and turn change into opportunity.
Resilience
Why resilience matters more than ever for organizations
Discover why resilience helps organizations prepare for uncertainty, respond faster and turn change into opportunity.
Resilience
How EY helps organizations build resilience
Discover how EY helps organizations turn resilience into practical actions, connected decisions and strategic growth.
Resilience is the ability to navigate the unexpected, or even the unimaginable. It is about recognizing opportunities and staying ahead of change. Resilience is not a crisis manual, but a mindset: acting with preparedness, agility and purpose. Every disruption presents an opportunity. Moving forward with confidence when progress requires adaptability.
Get a grip on complex challenges
- Finance
- Sustainability
- Technology & cyber
- Strategy
- Supply chain & trade tariffs
- Defence
CHALLENGE
Financial agility in a volatile world
In an unpredictable world, geopolitical, economic and climate-related shocks can quickly affect an organization’s finances. Many organizations still spot risks too late and lack the structures they need to respond quickly and effectively.
OPPORTUNITIES
EY helps organizations strengthen financial management by bringing risk, data and decision-making closer together. This gives them more control in uncertain times and helps them stay on course and protect value when circumstances change.
- Faster insight into impact: Scenarios and risk models make financial consequences and response options visible at an earlier stage.
- Better decision-making: Real-time data and AI improve predictability and support stronger financial decisions.
- Stronger value creation: Integrating risks into management processes helps organizations invest in a more robust and future-focused way.
Meet Bouke Evers
Partner Financial Resilience
CHALLENGE
Accelerating the sustainability transition
Climate change, biodiversity loss and stricter regulation are increasing the pressure to move faster on sustainability. At the same time, complex supply chains, limited data and rapidly evolving technology often make progress difficult and fragmented.
OPPORTUNITIES
EY helps organizations turn sustainability ambitions into concrete actions across the value chain. Better insights and stronger connections between stakeholders make sustainability less abstract and more part of daily decision-making and growth.
- Better risk-based decision-making: Climate and nature data make the impact of transition and risk more concrete and easier to manage.
- From supply chain insight to action: Transparency across supply chains accelerates optimization, compliance and collaboration with partners.
- New avenues for growth: Sustainability becomes a source of innovation, new services and future-proof business models.
Meet Taco Bosman
Partner sustainability
CHALLENGES
Safeguarding digital continuity and security
Cyber threats, IT outages and geopolitical tensions increase the risk of disruption to critical processes. Because cyber, IT and continuity are often still organized in separate silos, organizations lack the overview and quick decision-making they need during incidents.
OPPORTUNITIES
EY helps strengthen digital resilience by better connecting technology, security and the organization. This creates more visibility, faster recovery and greater confidence in the organization’s digital foundation.
- Faster and better response: Integrated insight into cyber, IT and business reduces response times during disruption.
- One connected view: Breaking down silos provides a clearer picture of dependencies and vulnerabilities.
- Confidence in digital continuity: Stronger resilience increases trust among customers, employees and stakeholders.
Meet Rudrani Djwalapersad
Partner Technology, Cyber & Data Resilience
CHALLENGE
Providing direction in a world that keeps changing
Geopolitical pressure, rapid technological change and shifting customer expectations mean that markets are evolving faster than many organizations can keep up with. In practice, balancing short- and long-term goals remains difficult.
OPPORTUNITIES
EY helps organizations develop strategies that are better prepared for uncertainty and change. By connecting scenarios, choices and execution more effectively, organizations gain both focus and flexibility.
- Sharper strategic choices: Scenarios help translate uncertainty into clearer long-term decisions.
- Greater agility in execution: Flexible structures make it easier to respond quickly to change.
- Stronger market position: Consistent execution of strategic choices builds sustainable competitive strength.
Meet Patrick Boertien
EY-Parthenon Partner Strategic Resilience
CHALLENGES
Responding more effectively across global supply chains
Geopolitical uncertainty, trade barriers and climate risks are putting pressure on supply chains and cost structures. This makes redesigning the operating model increasingly necessary.
OPPORTUNITIES
EY helps organizations better align their supply chains and tax structures, so decisions become more consistent and more resilient to disruption. This helps organizations respond faster while staying in control of costs and risks.
- Better integrated decision-making: Connecting business, tax and trade makes supply chain decisions more consistent and effective.
- Greater supply chain flexibility: Adaptability helps absorb shocks and protect margins.
- The supply chain as a growth accelerator: Disruptions are used to improve processes and increase value.
Meet Sebastiaan Kuijper
Partner Supply Chain & Tax Resilience
CHALLENGE
Operating faster and smarter with data and technology
Defence and public sector organizations need to work faster and make better use of data to help strengthen the resilience of the Netherlands. But IT, data and cyber resilience are not always aligned with operational reality and decision-making.
OPPORTUNITIES
EY strengthens digital and organizational capabilities, helping to reinforce the resilience of the Netherlands by integrating data, technology and decision-making. This creates an organization that can respond faster, anticipate more effectively and operate with greater impact in complex environments.
- Acceleration through technology: Modernizing IT, data and AI enables faster scaling and execution, and strengthens the ability to respond in time to threats and opportunities.
- Better governed and more transparent: A stronger link between strategy and execution increases control, insight and administrative confidence, supporting better decisions around the resilience of the Netherlands.
- Greater operational effectiveness: Better information, integrated systems and data-driven insights improve decision-making and effectiveness, enabling information-led operations.
Meet Lieke Verstegen
Account Partner for the Ministry of Defence & NATO
How EY can help
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The EY Enterprise Resilience solution helps organizations navigate disruption with agility — reducing risk and driving long-term value. Learn more.
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The EY Cyber Incident Resilience and Response solution provides ongoing incident management and uplift services across business lines. Learn more.
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EY can help your business achieve its climate change goals by simplifying challenges, defining a roadmap and focusing on actions that create value.
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EY-Parthenon professionals can help your business design and provide transformative strategies for sustainable growth. Learn more.
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EY sustainable finance teams helps financial services companies define sustainability goals that create value and make a measurable difference. Learn more.
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Our Corporate Finance consultants leverage deep financial and capital markets experience to help CFOs drive sustainable value. Learn more.
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Our Strategy Consulting teams help CEOs achieve maximum value for stakeholders by designing strategies that improve profitability and long-term value.
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Through careful analysis of emerging signals and trends, EY has identified four distinct scenarios for how AI could reshape the business landscape by 2030.
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Our Sustainability and ESG Strategy Consulting teams can help you with strategy, M&A, capital allocation, ESG due diligence and portfolio optimization.
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