What to Include in Your Crisis Management Plan
The heart of any crisis management program is the crisis management plan. In today’s post, we’ll tell you what should go into this critical, much-misunderstood document. Related on MHA Consulting: Here Be […]
What Comes Naturally: Dealing with Disasters Made by Mother Nature
As a rule, we recommend that business continuity professionals focus on impacts rather than causes when dealing with disasters; however, there is some benefit to thinking about the different causes of outage […]
Crisis Management Team-Building Ideas: If It’s Good Enough for Google…
Love Google or hate them, you have to admit they are good at accomplishing their objectives. One of the main ways they do this is by creating effective project teams. In today’s […]
Attack of the Black Swans: When Strange Things Happen
Every day, an organization somewhere is impacted by an event that is both very negative and deeply weird—so weird no one ever imagined it could happen. Who knows, tomorrow it might be […]
Crisis Management Exercise Examples – A Review of Real Exercises
Over the past several weeks we have discussed mock disaster exercises and how to plan and facilitate them, as well as different types of exercises – large and small. In today’s blog, […]
How to Be a Mock Jock: Advice on Facilitating a Disaster Exercise
The job of facilitating a mock disaster exercise is not for the faint of heart: it’s a critical, high-pressure task that takes a rare combination of skills. In today’s post, we’ll look […]
After the Smoke Clears: 7 Things to Do Once an Emergency Is Over
The end of an emergency is often the beginning of a longer phase of crisis management and business recovery. In today’s post, we’ll talk about seven things you should do after the […]
5 Myths of Contemporary Crisis Management
Many areas of business continuity are the subject of myths, meaning beliefs that are widely held but not true. Crisis management is one area where numerous myths have sprung up. In today’s […]
Not If But When: Is Your Company Ready for the Next Global Pandemic?
Many experts believe that the chance of an influenza pandemic or similar outbreak sweeping across the globe is high and growing higher every year. In today’s post, we’ll set forth some of […]
It Shouldn’t Be a Scavenger Hunt: Accessing Critical Recovery Information in Crisis
At many companies, emergencies are made worse because the crisis management team does not have ready access to vital, up-to-date data. In today’s post, we’ll talk about what information the crisis team […]
Crisis Response in Today’s Breakneck World
In today’s post, we’ll lay out some crisis response steps your organization can and should take to protect itself in our new business landscape where disaster is just a tweet away. In […]
“This Is an Emergency”: Why You Should Consider an Emergency Notification System
Emergency notification systems (ENS) are not just for government. You most likely already know that organizations can implement systems to send alerts and notifications to their employees, both in emergencies or even […]