{"id":846512,"date":"2025-12-15T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=846512"},"modified":"2025-12-15T15:20:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:20:42","slug":"business-talk-resilient-innovations-lutfiyyah-ahmed-on-the-importance-of-holistic-organisational-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/846512\/business-talk-resilient-innovations-lutfiyyah-ahmed-on-the-importance-of-holistic-organisational-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 Resilient Innovations\u2019 Lutfiyyah Ahmed on the importance of holistic organisational resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this Business Talk with Michael Avery interview, Lutfiyyah Ahmed unpacks what organisational resilience means today, and how it differs from traditional risk management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahmed is the Head of Advisory at Resilient Innovations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is an admitted attorney who specialises in privacy and cyber regulatory compliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahmed began her career in the legal sector at an international law firm before moving into the consulting space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has since advised many organisations across important sectors such as privacy, data protection, and business continuity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahmed is also passionate about empowering her industry peers, which is why she currently co-chairs Women in Security and Privacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The interview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In this Business Talk interview, Ahmed unpacks what organisational resilience means in the modern business climate, as well as how it differs from traditional risk management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She explains why holistic resilience is so important for South African organisations, before revealing the biggest gaps in many companies\u2019 resilience strategies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahmed then discusses how simulation exercises and stress tests can contribute to building enterprise-wide resilience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She concludes the interview by sharing practical steps that will help businesses strengthen their resilience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the full interview below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Business Talk \u2013 Lutfiyyah Ahmed on how resilience will shape the future of SA businesses\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GJMbP7Q4vFw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lutfiyyah Ahmed unpacks what organisational resilience means today, and how it differs from traditional risk management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":846513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[15578,24345,15788,19533],"class_list":["post-846512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-business-talk","tag-lutfiyyah-ahmed","tag-michael-avery","tag-resilient-innovations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846516,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846512\/revisions\/846516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}