The Minimum Viable Company
The Leadership Imperative for Organisational Survival
Most firms have invested heavily in continuity, disaster recovery, and operational resilience. Yet these efforts often remain fragmented, focused on systems, processes, and artefacts rather than the core question: What must endure for the organisation to survive?
This white paper introduces the DCR Partners view of the Minimum Viable Company (MVC), the minimum identity, shape and capability an organisation must sustain to remain viable through severe, prolonged disruption. The MVC reframes resilience not as a systems issue, but as a leadership and governance responsibility: making conscious, constrained, and accountable decisions about survival.
Who should read this white paper:
✓ Board Members & NEDs
✓ CEOs & executive leadership teams
✓ Chief Risk Officers
✓ Heads of Operational Resilience / Business Continuity
You will gain valuable insight about:
- The eight essentials of organisational viability
- Why the MVC defines the floor of resilience, not the ceiling
- The leadership challenge of sustained disruption
- Deliberate trade-offs under extreme constraint
- From implicit choices to explicit survival decisions
- How the organisation shifts once the MVC is defined
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