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"You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have." - Bob Marley
In the age of the coronavirus & day to day uncertainty, we will see a rise in the new role that might be common in the future to tackle crisis situation in organisations.
With the current increased pace of change & communication, we need to make decisions even faster as an organisation (at the same time minimising the risks & downside of decisions made) to ensure that the organisation continues to survive and thrive despite whatever market situations are dealt to us.
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Risk Management - A Driver of Growth
As we can see in EY's 7 Drivers of Growth (Daring to Compete), that Risk Management is now seen as a Driver of Growth current times.
How efficient and effective is your organisation's methodology in managing risks - lowering cost of capital & improving business performance.
The Coronavirus pandemic and it's impact on the global economy is part of that risk (and therefore costs of running an organisation) especially when there is a lockdown & supply chain disruptions due to business disruptions - how is your organisation adapting with the situation?
How fast are you adapting to the situation?
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Chief Crisis Officer
In light of the current situation, James Haggerty writes about the Chief Crisis Officer and shares with the world (given his experience and observation) a strategic approach on how organisations can develop a plan to deal with unexpected crisis that an organisation is facing:
Choosing the right Crisis Officer
Building the right Crisis Communications Team
Preparing a Crisis Plan that actually works
Using Technology in crisis
Managing legal crisis
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An Example of a Crisis Response Plan
So eventually, your organisation would probably build something like this.
It will usually be broken down into the following categories:
Risk Stages (on the X-axis)
Some form of measurement/metric of the crisis (on the Y-axis)
Options of possible Responses (on the Y-axis)
Options of possible support/resource needed to activated (on the Y-axis)
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We can also see this in how the different countries all over the world that are responding to the virus with different risk management/containment/mitigation strategies - from Italy, to China - based on different risk tolerances & government philosophies as well.
Question is: What are your organisation's strategies on crisis management to ensure that the business continues despite unexpected market situations?
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