Execution gap plagues enterprise digital resilience

A new global study from Economist Impact and Telstra International reveals a dangerous execution gap in enterprise digital resilience, finding that only one in four organizations successfully navigates major disruptions according to plan, with failures rooted less in technological deficits than in fractured governance and insufficient ecosystem coordination, ITPro reports.

Roary Stasko, CEO of Telstra International, noted that the research exposes a stark contrast between perceived readiness and on-the-ground performance, stating that "digital resilience can't be built in silos." The data shows that while firms have matured their internal cybersecurity policies, their response capabilities crumble when incidents cascade beyond the corporate perimeter into supplier and partner networks. Confidence in cross-sector collaboration during crises remains alarmingly low, hovering around twenty percent in the US and UK.

Compounding this fragility, roughly 60% of American and British organizations still rely heavily on legacy infrastructure, while board-level oversight of resilience planning is sporadic at best, with fewer than forty percent of strategic reviews generating concrete follow-up actions. The report underscores that robust technology delivers value only when paired with rigorous, ecosystem-wide scenario testing and genuine cultural readiness.