PreparedEx Fall Update
It’s a busy end of the year for PreparedEx! Rob Burton talks recent exercises, FirstLook, our self-guided exercise package, and Whiteboard Wednesday.
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 strategic clarity. This blog unpacks how to respond, recover, and reinforce continuity in the wake of flooding events. Phase 1: Immediate Response – Activate Crisis…
In the previous CC Series Short, 5-Step Process, Step One – Initial Preparation (Part 1), Rob discussed some points regarding what is involved in the initial preparation stage of an exercise. In this short video clip, Rob Burton delves further into Step-1. Do you have questions regarding The 5-Step Process? Contact us today!
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 or change the character of…
As an incident unfolds and becomes a crisis, it will create a dynamic and complex situation that requires the team to utilize its well-defined and well-practiced crisis management processes and tools. These processes and tools will help create a disciplined briefing cycle from the very beginning. In this short video clip from the Crisis Coordinator…
Is this type of cyber attack inevitable? Are we prepared? Veteran newsman, Ted Koppel, is gaining a lot of attention for his new book, “Lights Out: A Cyberattack, a Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath.” In it, Koppel convincingly argues that a cyber attack against our nation’s computer- and Internet-dependent power grid by declared enemies…
They’ve weathered the storms, but could their crises have been avoided altogether? What lessons can crisis communicators draw from the recent VW “dieselgate” crisis and United Airlines’ spate of public relations disasters, most notably its violent removal of a passenger from one of its planes? These are crises where company wrong-doing was evident, yet any…
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