Critical operations,continued through disruption
KOLOSAL7 is an operational resilience advisory for organisations whose critical operations have to continue through war, crisis and severe disruption.
- WHAT
- Operational resilience advisory
- ROOTED IN
- Operating conditions in Ukraine
- FOR
- Organisations in Ukraine, and European organisations reassessing their exposure
- WORKS ON
- Dependencies, people, assets, suppliers, technology and authority
Conventional continuity planning prepares for separate events: a fire, an outage, a supplier failure. Each has its own plan, and each plan assumes that everything else is still working.
Under severe disruption the failures are coupled. Power affects communications, communications affect payments, transport affects who can reach work, and the gap in authority delays every decision after it. The failure that stops an organisation is rarely the one its plan named.
KOLOSAL7 exists to find those couplings before a crisis does, and to build operations that keep running when several of them fail at once.
One scenario at a time
- A single named event
- One response per plan
- Everything else assumed available
- Decision-makers assumed reachable
Several failures, coupled
- Overlapping disruptions
- Degraded and contradictory information
- Partial staffing and restricted access
- Authority gaps at the moment of decision
The same operating principles, applied at two different distances from the event.
Preparing before the dependencies are tested
Apply what was learned under extreme operating conditions before similar dependencies are tested in reality.
For organisations reassessing their exposure to geopolitical disruption, energy and infrastructure failure, cyber-driven operational loss, supply shocks and state intervention.
Operating through disruption that is already real
Keep critical operations running under conditions that already exist.
For organisations working through physical threat, power and communications disruption, restricted access, workforce constraints and requirements that change faster than policy can follow.
Written, tested,and left readyto execute
Not advice and not a document. The plan is installed, rehearsed on shift, and handed over in a state it can be run in.