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Lessons from 2020: Crisis Management
The Dalai Lama once said, citing a Tibetan saying, that “tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.” As 2020 comes to a close, there can perhaps be no better way to approach such a turbulent, tumultuous, and yes, tragic year than to make sure that we learn and apply the hard lessons it has to teach us.
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Building Team Resilience for Sustainable Crisis Management
With the novel coronavirus pandemic in the six-month mark, most companies have moved past the initial urgency and immediacy of the crisis into a place where longer-term planning and sustainable crisis management is now a priority.
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Risk, Reentry, and Reopening
What follows is an overview of some of the new ways that companies need to be thinking about risk assessment and crisis planning, and some of the key considerations and best practices that companies can and should be taking right now to prepare for reentry and reengagement in a post-COVID environment.
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9 Steps to Prepare Your Organization for a Pandemic
In today’s globally connected marketplace, organizations are continually faced with an ever-evolving landscape of risks. While these risks can have a profound impact on day-to-day execution, they can also contribute to long term loss. We see this with the current media coverage on the coronavirus outbreak, where the focus has been on public health and travel freezes. But there is a chain reaction that also effects trade, supply chain production, and business continuity — possibly resulting in an economic recession.
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Coronavirus Outbreak Update: Preliminary Impact Becomes Apparent Across Industries Worldwide
This second instance is meant to provide decision-makers with a monographic snapshot of how the virus has already impacted several key industries, as well as the overarching tendencies that have resulted from the outbreak. We also cover how they will change the industrys landscape in both the operational and the financial realm, as well as the countermeasures that have been taken by industry leaders so far. By the end of the report, we analyze the current situation and drawing from the information presented, and we offer a forecast of how the scenario is likely to evolve as well as recommendations to mitigate the effects of the crisis for companies operating across the globe.
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Brexit Contingency Planning
It’s been nearly two and a half years since United Kingdom voters first declared thatthe UK should leave the European Union. While most large companies began Brexit contingency planning months or even years ago, one of the biggest challenges facing decision-makers today is that they don’t truly know what they’re planning for.
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How Can Your Organization Recover After a Data Breach?
In 2017, a months-long data breach into credit reporting agency Equifax exposed the personal information of more than 143 million Americans. As reported in the media, a number of internal errors led to the hack–including out-of-date software, failure to conduct routine security reviews and refusal to adopt widely used best practices.
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Protecting Critical Infrastructure (Before It’s Too Late)
Everyone knew it was coming. Weather forecasters and hurricane experts had predicted it for more than two weeks. A potentially catastrophic storm would hit islands in the Caribbean and there was little doubt that Puerto Rico would be among the hardest hit. And yet, it appeared that the island was ill prepared for the damage Hurricane Maria would inflict on Puerto Rico, its inhabitants and the critical infrastructure. Since they were warned of its approach, how could that be?
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Active Shooter Response Plan
As the United States Department of Homeland Security states: “… there is no pattern or method to the selection of victims by an active shooter, and these situations are by their very nature unpredictable and evolve quickly.” In the same way, we have no control over a natural disaster, there is no way to prevent an active shooter situation. However, there are ways to lower the risk.
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How Natural Disasters Can Affect Businesses
In North America, it is hurricane season. And this season has had more storms hit land, thereby affecting people, property, and businesses, than any in recent memory. But not your company. You are safely hundreds or thousands of miles away. So while you grieve for those suffering, you can still rest easy knowing that the storms will have no effect on your business. Are you sure?
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Protecting State & National Infrastructure Assets
A country’s heart and soul is its infrastructure, which includes – but is not limited to - communications, power, oil and gas, transportation, and financial institutions. These are all critical to the operation of a nation. In wartime, these are often designated as initial military targets, because when compromised, it will create confusion, panic, disconnection, and disruption of communication and transportation. Bombs, cruise missiles and commando forces were generally the way to deliver strikes on such internal national necessities; today there is a new option. Anonymous infiltration through the Internet and/or cellular technology presents the ability to disrupt and destroy infrastructure targets remotely, in a very clandestine way. The world is still in the infancy stage of this electronic warfare.
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School Shootings: Key Safety Points
Soon enough, it will be Back to School Season across the country. While that is usually full of eager anticipation by parents, children and teachers alike, in the past decade it also brings the fear that comes from memories of Columbine, Sandy Hook and other school shooting tragedies. Each year, communities must live with the threat of gun violence.
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Preparing Your Business for a Hurricane
Each year, hurricanes pose a great threat to businesses and people along coastal regions. The apprehension begins as weather channels discuss the name of tropical storms that form at sea. At the start, radar shows the storms far out to sea and posing no threat. However, will one of these tropical storms turn into the next hurricane to come ashore? This is a question that is constantly on the minds of individuals and businesses located in the potential storm’s path. Quickly the scene changes and radar shows a large cloud mass rotating out from the feared eye of the storm. The hurricane is projected to make ground fall the following day and the projected winds are over 100 mph. Your company, with hundreds of employees, is located right in the midst of it. What do you do?
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Emergency Preparedness: Practicing for Disaster
Picture a bustling Friday at your company’s headquarters. Hundreds of employees are working and there are many guests and vendors in the building. The company CEO is overseas on a business trip. The VP of Human Resources is on vacation. Several other senior-level executives are offsite visiting one of your regional operations. Then, a disaster strikes.
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Workplace Violence Mitigation
In today’s workplace, your organization needs to be prepared for anything and everything. In some cases, a reduction in force or the closing of a facility can pose a safety and security risk.