Resilience · The failure points · Element
The status
Whether the risk is accepted, mitigated or unaddressed.
The part
What it is
Acceptance is a legitimate answer and needs to be recorded as a decision by a named person, or it is indistinguishable from neglect.
Mitigation options are usually dual sourcing, buffer stock, alternative routing or a pre-agreed contingency arrangement.
The smallest level
The attributes it carries
Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.
Accepted by
Who took the decision, which is what makes acceptance different from neglect.
Person shared type
The other elements in the failure points
The points
Each place where a single failure would stop supply.
LearnThe impact
What would happen, and how quickly.
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