Scientific methodology

Corporate resilience index

The Resilience Index provides a structured assessment of an organization's ability to withstand, adapt to, and recover from disruptions across key strategic, financial, operational, and organizational dimensions.

Development of the Index

The Resilience Index is the result of a structured qualitative research project conducted within the restructuring environment. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with a broad range of stakeholders, including representatives from banks, private equity firms, financial advisors, corporate finance professionals, controllers, and board members.

The goal was to gain a holistic understanding of how organizations perceive and manage resilience under pressure. Insights from these expert interviews were analyzed using established methods of qualitative content analysis. Through systematic coding and categorization, recurring themes and patterns were identified and grouped into core resilience dimensions.

Within each dimension, specific indicators were derived that capture key organizational capabilities and potential vulnerabilities. This approach ensures that the Resilience Index is both empirically grounded and practically relevant—offering a nuanced, multidimensional tool to assess and strengthen corporate resilience.

Resilience Dimensions

Strategic Resilience

Strategic resilience reflects an organization’s ability to anticipate trends, respond to market shifts, and align long-term goals with external uncertainty.

Financial Resilience

Financial resilience captures the capacity to maintain liquidity, manage risks, and sustain performance during financial stress or economic downturns.

Operational Resilience

Operational resilience assesses how well an organization can maintain critical processes, supply chains, and product quality under adverse conditions.

Structural Resilience

Organizational resilience refers to the internal structures, cultures, and processes that support adaptability, learning, and coordination during change or disruption.

Personnel Resilience

Personnel resilience focuses on the capabilities, well-being, and adaptability of employees, including leadership effectiveness and workforce engagement in uncertain times.

Technological Resilience

Technological resilience describes the robustness, flexibility, and innovation capacity of an organization’s digital infrastructure and technological systems.