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Why Crisis Management Planning Should Be On Your To-Do List

Bernstein Crisis Management

Crisis management planning is the strategic process of preparing for situations can threaten to interrupt reputation, operations, or the financial bottom line. Proactive crisis management planning is a strategic investment in your business’s resilience and sustainability.

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Crisis Response 101: Mastering the Art of Firefighting in Business

Bernstein Crisis Management

Delving into some real-world examples can illuminate the essence of efficient and strategic crisis response. Example 1: The Tweet Misstep In 2011, an employee at the Red Cross accidentally tweeted a personal message from the organization’s official account, referencing a specific beer brand.

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Navigating Data Resilience with Zerto: Insights from the Global CrowdStrike Outage

Zerto

This outage brought many global businesses grinding to a halt and impacted everything and everyone across the globe—from day-to-day operations to long-term strategic initiatives. Zerto has been a market leader in disaster recovery since 2011 and protects some of the most critical applications in the world with only seconds of RPO.

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Aligning IT During a Merger or Acquisition

NexusTek

In fact, only 40% of businesses formally develop a PMI plan 2 , and many fail to appreciate the importance of strategic IT integration planning. A company’s IT infrastructure is integral to its strategic performance. Understanding the strategic value of IT in M&A. CONTACT US References: 1, 2. Kengelbach, J., Why deals fail.

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2022 SIA Women in Biometrics Awards Profile: Gena Alexa

Security Industry Association

Alexa, who has held key technical and management roles in the delivery of strategic government biometrics programs for more than 20 years, started her career as a software developer and architect. “In She left Unisys in 2011 to explore a role with a small business focused on CBP and ICE Intel solutions. “In

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A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom

Emergency Planning

An example is the excoriating report produced by three eminent Japanese women after the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear release, which highlights the deficiencies of a response system in which decision making is in the hands of elderly males. [1] As clarity is essential, it should be written in plain English, not legalese. Ohara and H.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Emergency Planning

Yet the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts include no experts on managing emergencies, even though this is the most extensive, and perhaps the most profound, emergency that the country has faced in the last 75 years. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016.