Maximum Operational Resilience vs Sustainable Operating Costs
Use business impact analysis to tier services by criticality and direct resilience spending proportionally, avoiding unsustainable uniform maximum-resilience mandates.
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Regulations
Business Context
Financial institutions seek the highest possible level of operational resilience across technology, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, disaster recovery, business continuity, and third-party management. Achieving maximum resilience everywhere, however, is neither economically sustainable nor operationally efficient.
Banking TRIZ Resolution
Apply resilience proportionally according to business criticality, regulatory obligations, customer impact, and quantified operational risk. Banking TRIZ promotes intelligent resilience by directing investment toward services where resilience produces the greatest business value while maintaining an acceptable risk profile across the enterprise.
Recommended Principles
Principle 1 - Segmentation
Principle 8 - Counterbalance
Principle 15 - Dynamics
Principle 40 - Composite Materials
Expected Outcome
Optimized resilience investment
Stronger operational stability
Better regulatory compliance
Sustainable long-term resilience
Chapter Summary
Operational resilience has evolved from a technology discipline into a strategic capability that encompasses governance, cybersecurity, cloud computing, disaster recovery, third-party risk, business continuity, and regulatory compliance. Frameworks such as DORA require financial institutions not only to prevent operational failures but also to demonstrate their ability to withstand, respond to, recover from, and continuously improve after disruptive events.
The forty Operational Resilience contradictions presented in this chapter illustrate how Banking TRIZ enables institutions to balance resilience, efficiency, innovation, and cost. By applying adaptive architectures, intelligent automation, structured governance, and risk-based investment, banks can build operational environments capable of supporting continuous financial services even under the most challenging conditions.