Enacted Resilience: Designing Future-Making Practices for Adaptive and Resilient Value Chains
Value chains professionals must navigate a “polycrisis” of climate change, geopolitics, and technological disruptions. Current strategies often mitigate risks but rely on generic measures that raise costs and emissions, failing to align with resource efficiency and sustainability goals.
This project advances enacted resilience; future-making practices where managers anticipate and act on possible disruptions. The project targets three operational contexts: supply of c material and components, managing products in use, and circular logistics flows.
Four critical challenges are investigated: aligning resilience with sustainability, building adaptability across system levels, tailoring strategies to context, and exploiting disruptions as innovation opportunities. Different studies and methods are used to generate validated frameworks for resilience-effort assessment, “fit” tools, and roadmaps to design adaptive value chains. Enacted resilience resides in capability-dimensions of Technolgoy, Organisation, and People.