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Understanding Crisis Management for Businesses

Bernstein Crisis Management

It involves preparing for potential crises through strategic planning and response protocols to protect an organization’s stakeholders, reputation, and assets. The ultimate goal is not only to navigate through a crisis effectively but also to emerge stronger and more resilient.

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Mastering Business Continuity Exercises: Best Practices, Scenarios, and Tools for 2025

BCP Builder

The key to resilience lies in preparationand thats where business continuity exercises come in. These exercises help organisations test, refine, and strengthen their business continuity plans (BCPs) to ensure theyre ready for anything. Regularly update the plan to address new threats and evolving business needs.

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Inflation, Job Anxiety, and Grievance: A Recipe for Civil Unrest in 2025

Bernstein Crisis Management

For businesses, governments, and community leaders, these trends represent potential threats to operations, safety, and resilience. Emergency preparedness and business continuity including scenario planning to anticipate potential disruptions and safeguard operations, employees, and reputations.

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Double trouble: When climate change and cyber crime collide

everbridge

Think beyond single scenario planning. Too many organizations view business continuity planning as a compliance exercise: “If we have a cyber breach plan on the shelf, we’re covered.” Effective early warning systems, alerts, and ongoing incident management communications are indispensable in a polycrisis scenario.

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Why Did Nobody See It Coming?: How Scenarios Can Help Us Prepare for the Future in an Uncertain World

The Rand Blog

Scenarios are a useful tool for informing policy, guiding strategies, and accommodating future change. Using scenario planning to target potential problems or areas for development and building resilience can pinpoint robust policies that could be viable across a range of future states.

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Writing Incident Scenarios: An Operational Resilience Trend Returns

Plan B Consulting

This is the same in the business continuity industry, with the return of risk scenarios which has gone full circle over the last 20 years. The use of risk scenarios is being pushed by the PRA and the FCA at present, as part of their operational resilience agenda. system failures) as well as those, outside of their control (e.g.

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Operational Resilience: Is it just business continuity done properly?

Plan B Consulting

What Operational Resilience really means, and how it compares with business continuity. I have been working on an operational resilience exercise for a client, which is based around taking a ‘severe but plausible scenario’ and then checking whether the scenario breaches the organisation’s impact tolerances.