Crisis Management

This category is Crisis Management, exploring strategies for navigating uncertainty, mitigating risks, and ensuring business resilience. It features expert insights on leadership during crises, effective decision-making, and building organizations that can withstand and adapt to challenges.

Should C-Suite Leaders Raise Their Profile During A Pandemic?

By Victoria Usher C-suite leaders are balancing multiple priorities as they guide their companies through the uncertainties and challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. From implementing...

COVID-19 vaccines to save the world: don’t neglect supply chain challenges

By Gilles Paché Since the spring of 2020, due to the spread of a new, very virulent coronavirus, the planet has been going through an...
Plant Explosion

7 Key Steps for Minimizing Risk in the Event of a Plant Explosion

When the unimaginable happens and a plant explosion rocks the community, the chaos and confusion can be overwhelming. If you're in Texas, where industrial...

Response to COVID-19 Global Pandemic Highlights the Role of National Cultures

By Bhaskar Pant The novel coronavirus has affected countries around the globe. It is non-discriminatory in terms of who it hits. It is oblivious to...

How to Keep Your Office Safe From Covid-19 Without All The Headaches

This year, humanity has faced an invisible enemy that has taken the lives of millions of people around the world. Because of a novel...

How Businesses Are Getting Back on Track in China

By Svenja Falk, Frank Riemensperger and Serena Qiu Two months ahead of most other businesses in dealing with COVID-19, companies in China offer key insights...

Public Hospitals Faced With COVID-19: Lessons From Logistics Management

By Gilles Paché The coronavirus crisis has highlighted main challenges in supply chain management. The European example shows that public hospitals have made effective logistical...

The Coronavirus Threat – The issue of reopening our economies or continuing the lockdown,...

By Dr. Peter Lorange Over the last few months, almost all countries in the world have been faced with the challenge of how to handle...

Leadership in Times of Crisis

By Lucy Franklin What a difference a few weeks makes. When planning for the new financial year, I doubt anyone in Europe saw this coming...

Does a COVID-19 Infection Constitute a Workplace Accident?

As lockdowns are lifted and as people gradually return to work, there are many fears that need to be quelled in order for people...

How to Successfully Scale Artificial Intelligence

How organizations are using data and AI to bring resilience and innovation to their operations By Anne-Laure Thieullent A few months ago, countries closed their borders,...

How the South African Economy Reacts to Global Crisis

This year, the novel coronavirus has shattered economies around the globe. No country was left untouched, with almost a million deaths by mid-September. South...

6 Discussions To Have With Your Employees When Coming Back To Office

By David Kelly The current COVID-19 situation drastically changed the way we perceive a traditional workplace and remote working. Due to government-imposed restrictions and measurements,...

Lack of Safety or Sheer Complacency? Are We Overlooking the Obvious?

With our feet now firmly entrenched in the 21st century, we find ourselves living in a world of incredible technological accomplishments, ever-advancing medical discoveries,...

How Can You Secure A Construction Site?

If you have decided to put an addition onto your home, build your own home, or even extend or build onto your business, you’ll...

Post-Coronavirus Economy: How to position your business for growth

In all honesty, Covid-19 has impacted the economy in ways that are both positive and negative. While there is a high unemployment rate, there...

Crisis Leadership in Action: A Balancing Act between the Past and the Future

By David De Cremer The year 2020 will remain in our collective memory as a “crisis” year. It is the year where COVID-19 hit the...

Why are some firms becoming more successful during the COVID-19 pandemic?

By Peter Lorange The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a worldwide recession of immense proportions.  Many companies are closing down, either for good or temporarily. ...

The New Normal Of Business In The Age Of Coronavirus

As we’ve experienced during the Covid Pandemic, there’s a need for businesses to adapt to the new “normal” of operations. From stay-at-home orders frequently...
British High Streets

Jack Mason Explains What the Future Holds for British High Streets

As more British chains collapse at the hands of coronavirus, many people worry for the future of our high streets – especially the tens...
Vaccine Passport

Will Vaccine Passports Be Required to Travel to Europe?

After news of two approved coronavirus vaccines broke in late 2020, many were hopeful that the pandemic would soon be over. While countries around the...
Chinese SMEs

How Can Leaders Build Reputation in Chinese SMEs

By William S. Harvey, Hongqin Li, Oswald Jones and Jie Yang  How can leaders transform their SMEs from being unknown to being known and more...
Crisis communication

Seven Lessons From Crisis Communications During the Pandemic

By Adnan Bashir If you happen to be a marketing or communications practitioner, chances are that the first half of 2020 was a whirlwind time...
post covid

Strategic Drivers for the Post-Pandemic Era

By Dr. Alessandro Lanteri Every day business news cover dozens of new products, technologies, consumer behaviours, and business models that could be critical to the...

A year on from lockdown: businesses and their leaders need the metropolis

By Beth Hampson March 2021 marked the one-year anniversary of lockdown in the UK, which, for many of us, also marks a year of working...
Safety and Security of Your Office

How to Ensure the Safety and Security of Your Office

Office safety and security should be important topics for any business, no matter its industry, size, and scope. Ensuring the workplace is up to...
fraud

How to Protect Yourself Against Cloned Firms

Cloned firms have been plaguing financial companies across the UK for years and they can be a real nuisance. A cloned firm essentially ‘clones’ your...
business colleagues

From Surviving to Thriving: Business after Coronavirus

At the beginning of 2020, many people found it difficult to adapt to some of the changes due to the pandemic. Everyone can tell...
consultant

Client Advisory: How To Cultivate The Ultimate Consultant For Real-World Strategies That Work

By Leon Gauhman Leon Gauhman, chief strategy officer at digital product consultancy Elsewhen, explains how clients can sidestep endemic problems in the consultancy sector, vetting...
Iain Wright

Are You Prepared to Take the Risk?

Interview with Iain Wright, CFIRM, Outgoing Chair, Institute of Risk Management (IRM) Risk is a fact of life for businesses of all kinds – large...
Economic Recession

How The Pandemic Differs From A Typical Economic Recession

By Karlton Jahmal Essential businesses made out pretty well during the pandemic. Nobody was buying out grocery stores during the 2001 or 2007 economic downturns....
The need to rethink risk governance

The Need To Rethink Risk Governance

By Pedro B. Agua The approach to corporate risks is a growing concern within corporate governance. Excessive attention to compliance and too much focus on...
review

Believing In These Online Reputation Management Myths & Misconceptions Can Ruin Your Business

Today, everything is public and apparent. There's actually no getting away from all the data out there on the web, every one of the...
Retailers Need To Evolve To Thrive After Covid-19

How Retailers Need To Evolve To Thrive After Covid-19

2020 was the year that many businesses either shut down or completely folded up due to the pandemic. Thus, many retailers came up with...
cleaning

Why Office Cleaning Is Essential to Protect Staff During COVID

When COVID became a reality in our everyday lives, it felt easy to despair that life and the workplace would never be the same...
Insider Threat

How to Detect and Mitigate Malicious Insider Threats

Insider threats come in many forms. A great deal of issues within the workplace regarding confidentiality, integrity or accessibility are accidental mistakes caused by...
Crisis

Crisis Management Examples to Learn From

During a PR crisis it can feel like the world’s attention is on your business. Teams and individuals often panic under the public spotlight....

Sudden Disasters That Might Jeopardize Your Business

Running a business is amazing, regardless of your location, your industry, your niche, and the size of your company, but it’s also a very...
Black Swan

How to Overcome Challenges from Unpredicted Events

There are those moments in every business where events just come from out of the blue and seem to be random and possibly catastrophic.  When...
business consultant

What Is a Business Consultant?

Hiring a consultant may assist companies in improving their performance and making the required adjustments to attain success. Business consultants aid organizations in overcoming...
Office-security

Four Ways to Fortify Office Security 

As a proponent of vehicle safety in the earlier half of the twentieth century, Eleanor Everet once proclaimed: “safety is not a gadget but...
Ransomcloud

New Ransomcloud Threats Demand Action From the Top

By Gavin Knapp Global expenditure on cloud services rose 34 per cent year-on-year in the final quarter of 2021, hitting $53.5bn as the great migration...
Preparing for Covid

Preparing for the Next Virus – Pandemic Lessons for IT Infrastructure

By Simon Michie How do businesses prepare for the next virus or major upheaval that disrupts supply chains and operations like the pandemic? We saw how...
Ukranian-Refugees

The Financial Exclusion Problem Facing Ukrainian Refugees and What Can Be Done  

By Mikkel Velin, co-CEO, YouLend With the tools and resources available today, it should be a given that refugee entrepreneurs should be able to flourish...
Crisis Management For Your Business

Tips On Crisis Management For Your Business

It is important to prepare for any eventuality that could lead to a crisis for your business. This could come about due to internal...
Injury

8 Tips to Prevent Slip and Fall Injuries on Business Property

Your workplace environment should be a place where your workers feel safe doing their jobs. The leading causes of workplace injuries and worker’s compensation...
Online Payment Fraud

The Most Common Forms of Online Payment Fraud and How Merchants Can Combat Them

By Pavels Smirnovs Online shopping has grown dramatically in popularity and scope over the last decade, with the events of 2020 forcing ever-greater numbers of...
Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Management in a Disruptive Environment

By Ki Ling Cheung Global organisations must rethink supply chain management to cope with the aggravated supply chain challenges resulting from all sorts of disruptions,...
business closing

Closing Your Business – The Myths Debunked

The myths and "paper talk" surrounding business closures can sometimes conceal the truth of what actually occurs when one shuts down. You're likely to get a different response...
supply systems

The Rise and Fall of Supply Systems: From Global to Regional?

By Gilles Paché The war in Ukraine is a major geopolitical crisis whose first economic repercussions, particularly in terms of inflation, were quickly felt in...

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