Business Resilience: The Minimum Vital Company Framework

When primary systems go down, most organizations discover the same hard truth: they know what should happen, but they cannot execute it.

This report introduces the Minimum Vital Company (MVC) framework: the smallest set of processes and data that must remain operational to ensure organizational survival during a major disruption such as cyberattack, prolonged IT outage, or infrastructure failure.

What you will find in this report

• Why traditional Business Continuity Plans fail when it matters most, and what the Minimum Vital Company offers.
• How to define what is truly existential for your organization, using the 5 Vital Activities framework.
• What makes a Vital Activity actually executable: an executable process and Vital Data, the two elements that must be simultaneously available, protected, and tested.
• Why Critical Payments are the right starting point, and how to build from there.
• How to implement in 3 structured phases, from a single end-to-end process to enterprise-wide scale.
• The governance model: why the CISO or Resilience Leader must sit at executive level.

Who should read it

This report is for CEOs, CFOs, CISOs, and Resilience Leaders who need a structured, operational model (not a theoretical framework) to ensure their organization can function when primary systems are unavailable.

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