61% of UK leaders tell us they're confident about the year ahead. The Index puts their operational readiness at 37.
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It counts plans. Policies held, frameworks adopted, certifications achieved. All of it easy to ask about. All of it easy to answer.
None of it tells you whether an organisation could keep trading on a Tuesday morning when the systems don't come back up.
So we asked two questions instead of one. Do you have it. And have you tested it.
The distance between those two answers is the most revealing number in the study. It isn't close.
88% named a cost, tax or demand risk in their top two. 20% named anything operational. The damage went the other way.
What UK businesses actually did after the change of Prime Minister, and the one thing they want most from the budget.
Cyber dominates the worry list for the year ahead. It caused a fraction of the disruption that actually happened.
88% of leaders put a cost, tax or demand risk in their top two for the year ahead. Only 20% named anything operational.
Then we looked at what actually went wrong over the last 24 months.
People leaving, systems failing and equipment breaking did the real damage. The two lists barely overlap. The report is about why.
We asked what UK businesses actually did after July's change of Prime Minister, and what they most want from the Autumn budget.
The mood is defensive. Forecasts have been reopened, pricing put back under review, and investment paused far more often than it's brought forward.
Cyber and regulation absorb the anxiety about the next twelve months. People leaving, systems failing and equipment breaking did the actual damage over the last twenty-four.
Attention is following the headlines, not the incident log.
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You hold a plan you haven't rehearsed. In this study, that group scored themselves highest on confidence and had the worst record on actual disruption.
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