stolselvermogen

Stolselvermogen is a Dutch term used in engineering, risk management and organizational studies to describe the capacity of a system, organization or process to maintain its essential functions in the face of disturbances and to recover quickly when disruptions occur. The term is a neologism that blends elements suggesting system capacity, and is used where a holistic view of resilience is needed. In practice, stolselvermogen encompasses robustness, redundancy, adaptability and speed of recovery, often assessed through scenario testing and performance metrics.

Definitions vary by domain, but common elements include the ability to continue critical operations under stress, the presence of failover mechanisms, and the agility to reconfigure resources as conditions change. Measurement typically involves uptime, recovery time objectives, resilience indices, and stress-testing results that simulate outages, load spikes or component failures. Qualitative assessments consider governance, communication and incident response effectiveness.

Applications include infrastructure planning (energy grids, transport networks), IT systems and organizational risk governance. Designers aim to maximize stolselvermogen by redundancy, modular design, clear escalation paths and regular drills. Critics note that without standardized definitions, cross-organizational comparisons remain challenging and that emphasis on one dimension may neglect others, such as security or cost.

The term remains less formalized than established concepts but is used in some Dutch-language guidelines and academic articles as a holistic way to express a system’s ability to cope with disturbances.