Resilient Firms and Economies 2025

Assessing resilience readiness Resilience is advancing, but uneven readiness and weak capabilities highlight the need for deeper collaboration and sustained investment.2 The Pulse Check Survey and various convenings conducted by the Resilience Consortium throughout 2025 offer a deeper insight into how private sector organizations are navigating their resilience journeys. Building on the global context and the importance of resilience outlined in the previous chapter, this section focuses on firms’ readiness to withstand and adapt to disruptions. Resilience preparedness: progress and gaps The Resilience Consortium’s private sector resilience framework, introduced in Seizing the Momentum to Build Resilience for a Future of Sustainable Inclusive Growth, is a strategic model designed to help companies endure, adapt and thrive amid disruptions. It comprises six resilience dimensions, which represent key areas where resilience could be embedded. The framework also includes four resilience capabilities that equip organizations to respond to crises, adapt strategies, anticipate challenges and prepare for disruptions (Figure 1). Together, these dimensions and capabilities form a holistic, forward-thinking approach that enables companies to turn crises into opportunities. The consortium’s Pulse Check Survey uses this framework to evaluate companies’ resilience preparedness and the specific measures they have implemented across these dimensions and capabilities. Resilient Firms and Economies 7