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lifts [elevators] blocked: people possibly trapped in them trains stranded: people possibly stranded in them traffic control inoperable: possibility of accidents and queues at road junctions critical facilities (hospitals, police stations, etc.)
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This itself leads to managing an incident over a video conferencing system. This week I share some views on how technology can be used to manage an incident in our brave new hybrid world. Next door to the CIR was a room where the crisismanagement team met, but this was not a dedicated space, it just took over one of the meeting rooms.
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This itself leads to managing an incident over a video conferencing system. With this in mind, I am going to share some views on how technology can be used to manage an incident in our brave new hybrid world. Last week I ran a SIMEX for a bank crisismanagement team.
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This itself leads to managing an incident over a video conferencing system. This week I share some views on how technology can be used to manage an incident in our brave new hybrid world. Next door to the CIR was a room where the crisismanagement team met, but this was not a dedicated space, it just took over one of the meeting rooms.
This itself leads to managing an incident over a video conferencing system. With this in mind, I am going to share some views on how technology can be used to manage an incident in our brave new hybrid world. Last week I ran a SIMEX for a bank crisismanagement team.
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Inform employees, vendors, partners, and key stakeholders of their specific responsibilities based on your disaster response plans. Establish a primary and alternate means of communicating with your employees, critical vendors, business partners, key stakeholders, and customers. Get The CrisisManagementPlan Template.
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Charlie looks at Timothy Coombs’ ‘Situational CrisisCommunications Theory’ and how you can develop a crisis response strategy from it. For many years I have slightly shied away from crisiscommunications.
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