Resilience is becoming a major part of all Australian Government planning and strategy in the future, although Organisational Resilience currently lacks definition and could be considered multidisciplined. Therefore, this paper has proposed a research project that examines the philosophy of Organisational Resilience in an effort to identify and tabulate its essential concepts. Such work is progressing, but within the various applied domains of resilience. For example, the United States is currently developing a standard and the United Kingdom Government has based its National Civil Contingency Planning framework on the concept of resilience. Characteristics or essential concepts of Organisational Resilience are not clearly understood. Nevertheless,properties that may be accepted as essential concepts of Organisational Resilience can be put forward, such as enterprise risk management, security management, business continuity, governance, leadership, situational awareness, culture and values, and independencies. These essential concepts will be extracted from international standards across many applied domains, tabulated and validated through a four-phased Grounded theory study. It is expected that such a study will present a proposition that Organisational Resilience is in fact a foundation upon which the organisation stands, rather than an overarching framework that directs the organisation’s path. Further that Organisational Resilience is an assembly of the outcomes from the many disciplines that make up an organisation, rather than a process or management system.