EDITOR’S NOTE: Leading up to DRJ Spring 2025, Disaster Recovery Journal will highlight the authors featured in the “Resilience Reads: Meet the Authors” exhibition in Orlando, Fla.
Alejandro Aristizábal wants to make risk analysis and decision-making more consistent and reliable during disruption events. His latest book, “Resilience Fundamentals: Modeling the Anatomy of Risk Analysis and Critical Events,” breaks down readers’ familiar understanding of resilience into specific components to support decision-making during critical incidents.
The book is the result of research that proposes the analytical deconstruction of organizational resilience into the key components of enterprise risk management, business continuity management, and crisis management. These elements then become the cogs that integrate the three disciplines, allowing for more effective management.
“The proposal of a three-dimensional risk map solves the fixed probability-impact weighting problem of the traditional heat map and introduces time into the risk analysis, enriching and improving risk inference,” Aristizábal said. “All of this is extensively justified in the book, and mathematically in the annexes.”
Aristizábal is the CEO of RedLogyc and has been a consultant for more than 15 years. He discovered a probability theorem in 2019 with wide corporate and industrial applications and has specialized in the construction of quantitative and nonquantitative models applied to organizational resilience.
“I believe that risk estimation, being such a necessary tool in strategic decision-making, can be improved both in its precision and scope,” Aristizábal said. “Regarding business continuity, the impacts obtained in the BIA only measure the level of damage or loss up to the moment the continuity plan is activated. This suggests the effect of the interruption ends the moment the strategy is activated. It leaves out the possibility of maneuvering by the organization to reduce, among other things, the reputational impact of the consequences suffered by the interested parties even after service has been restored.
“As for crisis management, there are several approaches because it is a gaseous subject,” Aristizábal continued. “I decided to propose a model that has been of practical use and appealing to leaders because it fits easily into crisis decision-making where probability cannot take part.”
“Resilience Fundamentals” is being uploaded any day. His first book, “Probability of Interruption and Business Impact: A Mathematical Approach to Business Continuity,” is available for purchase at Amazon.
Aristizábal has written several academic research papers and online articles. He hopes to tackle another book about experimental research in the future.
“I’d like to find a research-oriented organization willing to do some experiments about reliability on IT/OT process dependency,” Aristizábal said.
Visit Aristizábal and other “Resilience Reads” guest authors at DRJ Spring 2025 in Orlando, Fla., March 23-26, 2025. Attendees will have a chance to meet leading industry experts, exchange ideas, and explore the latest insights in resilience. Don’t miss this opportunity to get a signed copy of their books and discover valuable resources to advance your career.
For more information, visit www.drj.com/spring2025.
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