Are You Protecting Your Reputation With A Plan?

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Are You Protecting Your Reputation With A Plan? Neglecting reputation can be costly With polls showing that global executives attribute a whopping 63% of their company’s market value to its overall reputation, it seems most in the know would agree reputation is a tremendously valuable resource. Why, then, is it …

The Very Hard Truth About Your Next Major Natural Disaster

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A discussion of some tough-to-swallow disaster preparedness truths, by Jonathan Bernstein If you’ve been denial about disaster preparedness, this may be a good time for you to avert your eyes, because you’re not going to like what I have to say.  It centers around this quote by an Emergency Services Coordinator …

Why You Should Have a Disaster Recovery Strategy Now

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[Editor’s note: This guest post comes to us courtesy of tech consultant Rick Delgado. To submit guest articles email [email protected]] In today’s technology-driven, data-intensive IT environment, a disaster recovery strategy is not an option. The Internet of Things has proliferated. It will not slow down, and artificial intelligence is gaining …

Avoid Being Blindsided, Prepare for Crisis Management

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Open your eyes and look to find weak spots where trouble could start Major organizations continue to be blindsided by crises on an almost daily basis, but how? They have the budget, they have the manpower, so what exactly is lacking that results in loss of reputation, financial woes, and …

Playing Chicken with Crisis Management

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Having a plan in place means you won’t be left scrambling when crises appear In order to be as effective as possible, crisis planning needs to come before a crisis actually hits. While it is possible to create and enact a plan after things get messy, it’s never easy. In …

Crisis Management Lessons from Tsunami Study

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A reminder to plan for “rare, but predictable” crises If a monster earthquake struck off Alaska’s coast, tsunami waves would rush toward California, crippling the nation’s busiest port complex and flooding coastal communities, a report released Wednesday suggests. The potential impacts, based on a hypothetical magnitude-9.1 jolt off the Alaskan …

Yosemite Rim Fire Demonstrates Indirect Impact of a Disaster

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A harsh reminder of the need to be prepared as individuals and organizations The Yosemite Rim Fire, more than 15,000 acres and barely 15% contained, is demonstrating the crisis management adage that you don’t have to be in the direct path of a natural disaster to be negatively impacted by …

Is Rude the New Norm?

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Take the opportunity to stand out from the crowd According to a new study from Weber Shandwick, Powell Tate and KRC Research, incivility is America has reached “crisis proportions.” A full 43% of respondents EXPECTED to experienced incivility within the next 24 hours, and the average number of times those …

Do Your Crisis Management Plans Include Loss of GPS?

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Heavily-used technology is frighteningly easy to disrupt EVERY day for up to ten minutes near the London Stock Exchange, someone blocks signals from the global positioning system (GPS) network of satellites. Navigation systems in cars stop working and timestamps on trades made in financial institutions can be affected. The incidents …

5 Crisis Management Questions for Jonathan Bernstein

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Bernstein Crisis Management president shares valuable insight in latest interview We were honored recently to have the Baltimore Sun’s Candy Thomson sit down with our very own Jonathan Bernstein for an interview as part of the paper’s “5 Questions” series. The BCM Blogging Team https://www.bernsteincrisismanagement.com/

AussieMite’s Social Media Crisis Management Revisited

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We revisit the embattled Australian company’s situation after the flames die down The hallmark of an intelligent business isn’t that it never encounters trouble, but rather how it manages to continue on afterwards. In a recent blog post, we blasted AussieMite‘s abrasive social media crisis management for stakeholder backlash against …

Crisis Management Ostrich Alert for Colleges & Universities

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You Might Be An Ostrich If….. If you haven’t already initiated an independent investigation to determine whether or not you could be the next Penn State or Rutgers…you might be an ostrich. If you know that something which has happened or is happening on your sports programs could seriously harm …

The Three P’s of Cyber-Survival

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The cyber war is on, protect yourself now South Korea was hit by a major cyber attack Wednesday as the computer systems of two major banks, three broadcasters and others simultaneously crashed, raising suspicions that North Korea was to blame. On some computer screens, images of skulls with glowing red …

Do the Legwork & Boost Your Crisis Management

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Proper prep is the #1 way to reduce the impact of crises on your operations There are many parallels that can be drawn between crisis management and sports. In a blog post today on The Buzz Bin, Jeff Wilson, APR, offered up the following great example when he discussed crisis …