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Navigating Turbulent Waters: Crisis Management & Business Continuity After a Major Flood
When floodwaters rise, so do the stakes for businesses. For corporate crisis managers, a major flood is more than a natural disaster—it’s a real-time stress test of operational resilience and…
What Can Crisis Planners Learn from the Manchester Terror Bombing?
As painful as it is to replay in our minds the recent terror bombing in Manchester, crisis planners are obligated to study it. Two lessons jump out: Lesson 1: Outside perimeters, by definition, are not secure Without having to pass through any sort of security screening, terrorists view outside perimeters…
United States – Canada: Cross Border Emergency Response Interoperability Mutual Aid Preserving Economic Stability
The United States and Canada have a long history of working together to ensure that, should there be a major incident, frameworks exist to enable joint response, across the international boundary. In 2016, total bilateral trade in goods and services exceeded $635 billion USD, a large portion of which occurs…
What Is Horizon Scanning?
During the month of May, Rob Burton is focusing on Horizon Scanning and why this tool should be implemented into your crisis management team’s tool kit. Predicting Crises Through Horizon Scanning Horizon Scanning is a systematic examination of potential threats, opportunities and future developments, which may have the potential to create new risks…
4 Reasons Crisis Scenario Planning is Effective
An Organization is Not “Crisis Ready” Unless it Validates Plans and Teams Through Crisis Simulation Exercises on an Ongoing Basis Do your crisis simulation exercises really engage your team members? Are they impactful in a way that your leadership team wants to invest more time and financial resources into them?…
The Role of the Crisis Leader Versus the Crisis Communicator
A Crisis Leader Needs to Think Strategically and Make Key Decisions for the Overall Management and Response Being able to coordinate multiple functional areas of an organization during a crisis requires detailed preparation. The CMT (Crisis Management Team) should have a leader as well as someone designated as his or…
Crisis Management Tabletop Exercises – A Guide to Success
A crisis management team can only truly be ready for a crisis when it has evaluated its preparedness through crisis simulation tabletop exercises. The Tabletop Exercise Tabletop Exercises bring together heads of lines of business and leaders of business processes to evaluate their state of readiness for crisis management, disaster…