LCG 05 The Resilient Company Workbook (English Edition)

Have you decided what must keep running if everything else stops?

Your bank asks about it before approving the credit line. Your key customers ask before they sign, and your insurer requires it before they cover you. Resilience used to be a competitive edge. Today it is the price of entry. Can you answer these five?

1. What is the minimum that has to run for us to still be a company?

When NotPetya hit Maersk in 2017, around 45,000 PCs and 4,000 servers went down within minutes. The only surviving copy of the identity system sat in the office in Ghana - offline because of a chance power cut. Maersk itself put the bill at $250-300m. The workbook's Minimum Viable Company method is about not depending on luck.

2. Does the leadership team know what to do in the first 90 minutes?

Most don't. Average downtime after a ransomware attack is 24 days (Statista/Commvault 2025), and what happens in the first hours often decides the rest. The workbook gives you a decision protocol that works when the pressure is real.

3. Who is allowed to shut what down - without asking first?

According to CrowdStrike, an attacker moves around the systems on average 29 minutes after first access. The fastest did it in 27 seconds. There is no time to call a board meeting. The workbook helps you make those decisions in advance.

4. Which of the four patterns that erode resilience do we already see?

Most organisations don't collapse overnight. They are worn down by patterns that build up - including a leadership team that is exhausted before the crisis even arrives. The workbook names the four patterns and gives you a weekly leadership rhythm that prevents them.

5. Have we practised it - or just written it down?

A plan that has never been tested is an assumption. The workbook ends with a 75-90 minute crisis exercise for the whole leadership team. LCG is a pre-qualified adviser under the Danish SMV:Pro programme, so Danish SMEs can get up to 50% funding - up to DKK 100,000 - for a crisis readiness programme.

New in October 2026: A brand new chapter on technology dependency. It shows how dependent you really are on individual vendors and countries, the five decisions the board should make, and how to build a three-year plan to regain control.

What you get: Seven practical moves, four all-hazards instruments (the cascade model, your own risk picture, critical infrastructure dependency and Minimum Viable Company), a chapter on assuming the attacker is already inside - with the CPR case worked through - a self-assessment for the leadership team and a ready-to-run crisis exercise.

It is for boards and leadership teams in SMEs and larger companies where the bank, customers, insurer or regulator are asking questions you can't fully answer.

Why not just ask ChatGPT? ChatGPT can write a contingency plan. It can't get your leadership team to agree on what "enough" looks like when everything has stopped. That is what the workbook is built for.

Also available as a workshop: The Minimum Viable Company workshop is a day with LCG where you build and test the model together.

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