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.

Humanitarian Aid Operations

Transforming Humanitarian Aid Operations with Intelligent Automation

By Dalia Alic Disasters in numbers: approximately 274 million people needed humanitarian assistance and protection in 2022, with additional 17.7 million people in need due...
First Aid Training

First Aid Training – Imperative at Work

First aid training is important at work, especially if you work in a high-risk environment. It's also important to take care of yourself during...
Injuries

How Business Owners Can Prevent Personal Injuries

Workplace injuries can have huge impacts on a business. The cost is high the lost productivity, medical bills, compensation paperwork, and reduced morale. The...
Fire Watch Guards Services

Why Fire Watch Guards Services Should Be Taken in Commercial Businesses?

One of the most important things a business owner can do to prevent a fire is to keep fire alarm systems and sprinklers functioning...
the rock tour supply chain

On the Road Again: Putting the Rock Tour Supply Chain on Music

By Gilles Paché Rock tours attract millions of fans each year around the world. But are concertgoers aware of the logistics involved in pulling off...

Balancing Productivity and Remote Work to Avoid The Great Resignation

By Elise Carmichael The business world is facing an ever-growing challenge: striking the balance between optimising employee productivity levels and providing job satisfaction. Here we...
Challenges Faced by Associations

Common Challenges Faced by Associations

Running an association can be rewarding work, but you will find that there are numerous challenges that most face, and these are often ongoing....

Resilience Is More than Being Able to Rebound: It Should Be Used As a...

By Jacques Bughin While they may not be able to prevent pending economic crises such as those resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses can use...
Digital communication and public concern

Digital Communication and Public Concern During Natural Disasters.

By Federico Platania, Celina Toscano, and Fernanda Arreola While it makes sense that governments should use social media for effective communication with the public in...
Infrastructure Department

Infrastructure Department Struggles With 14% Spending Cut

The Department for Infrastructure (DfI) in Northern Ireland is facing a significant budgetary challenge in the coming year. Compared to the previous year, there...
Crisis Management

Crisis Management During March Madness and How Companies Handle It

March Madness is one of the most highly anticipated sporting events of the year in the United States, with millions of fans tuning in...
radical uncertainty

How to Thrive in Radical Uncertainty

By Nando Malmelin and Sofi Kurki The term “VUCA” is familiar to most of us as a convenient label to characterise our constantly changing world....
Crisis Management

12 Tips to Develop a Crisis Management Plan for Your Small Business

It's no secret that crisis management is essential to the survival of any business, regardless of its size. However, smaller businesses often lack the...

Best Practices for Dealing with Sudden Business Disasters

Businesses must be ready to deal with unforeseen difficulties that might interrupt their operations in today's quickly evolving business environment. These business disasters, which...
Risk Governance

A Framework For Risk Governance

By Pedro B. Agua When it comes to approaching risks, we find that compliance is a necessary condition, but, not a sufficient one. Risk has...
We have PII and IP... now what?

Diagnosis: We have PII and IP… now what?

By Dr. Nina Mohadjer, LL.M. Many corporations are facing the impossible. They have PII and IP, but once exposed, they face the risk of either...
Male Technician Sitting Near Dishwasher Writing On Clipboard In Kitchen

Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) Explained

A Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) management system is key to following food hygiene and safety measures. As a food production company,...
Simon Dolan - Columnist

The Eutopia of Engaging in Unconditional Kindness to Self and Others

By Salvador García Sánchez and Simon L. Dolan Introduction “Resilience” seems to be a common term used by professionals in many disciplines. Psychologists and medical experts...

How To Handle Winter Supply Chain Delays Without Losing Customers

When you own a business, you know that there will be situations along your journey that create problems. Some of these are preventable, and...
businessman looking at a maze

The Myth of Fixability: Why Do We Think there is a Silver Bullet to...

By Steve Hearsum Complex and messy problems are everywhere, not just in business, but in life more generally. Yet the way in which we face...
Resilient Organisation

How to Build a Resilient Organisation

Attributed to Loizos Heracleous, Professor of Strategy at Warwick Business School As macro factors such as economic trends, public health, war, technology development and...
three business men looking up

Towards the Building of Organisational Resilience: Uncovering the Key Features

By Simon L. Dolan, Adnane Belout, Jean-Luc Cerdin, and Javier Casademunt1 Introduction Organisational resilience refers to an organisation's ability to adapt, respond, and recover from disruptive...
Business woman stress and burnout

How to Protect Your Senior Leaders from Burnout: Simple, Company-Wide Leadership Behaviour Changes to...

By Andy Brown Protecting senior leaders from burnout is essential for sustainable business success. This article from award-winning leadership coach and Amazon best-selling author, Andy...
supply chain

How Global Companies Are Implementing Supplier Diversity Policies

By Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca and Gemma Berenguer It has become increasingly common for companies to implement supply-chain diversity to maintain a good image...
Business man pushing large stone up to hill

How to Build Personal Resilience to Navigate a Business Disaster

By David Ross It doesn’t take long to recall prominent business disasters. Volkswagen’s “emissions-gate” is still before the courts and there are regulatory and legal...

The Great Resignation

By Adrian Furnham Many believe that the young generation is not interested in working, with some calling them the Lazy Generation. The concept of the...
AI vuca

AI-Enabled VUCA

By Nathan Bennett, G. James Lemoine, and Péter Molnár AI-enabled volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) are downsides to the numerous benefits of AI technology....
Crisis management, leadership to stop the domino effect

How to Lead if You Inherit a Bad Situation 

By Michael Watkins As businesses navigate market disruptions, technological innovations and an increasingly turbulent world, leaders will frequently find themselves taking control of a team...
Row of burnt matches, one has survived and kept its red head,

Supporting Crisis Teams and Countering Burnout: A Strategic Essential  

By Dr Anthony Renshaw  The ongoing permacrisis has amplified burnout risks, especially for crisis management teams under immense pressure. This article highlights their challenges and...
ignoring feedback

Why Forecasting is Fixated with Accuracy: The Risk of Ignoring Feedback

By Dr. Claudio Antonini and Dr. Kamil Mizgier When it comes to building models for the purpose of forecasting, system designers are naturally concerned that...
Negotiation hands

Feel to Deal: The Power of Emotions in Negotiations

By Prof. Guido Stein, Salva Badillo, and Lucía Zelaya The key to a successful negotiation is not embedded in knowledge or reasoning ability but in...
supply - Enhancing the Role of Strategic Sourcing for Supply Chains amid Tariffs Trade War

Enhancing the Role of Strategic Sourcing for Supply Chains amid Tariffs Trade War

By Guilherme F. Frederico The beginning of 2025 has brought uncertainty to global supply chains due to the new US administration’s tariffs on global trade....
Intel Corporation

Intel Corporation: Gordon Moore’s Unique Leadership Strategic Laws and a Mysterious Strategic Turning Point

By Mostafa Sayyadi and Michael J. Provitera This is a peek at Gordon Moore, the co-founder and emeritus CEO of Intel, who has been noted...

On Ultraintelligence and Ultra Risks

By Dr. Claudio Antonini and Dr. sc. ETH Zurich Kamil Mizgier What is your pet goldfish's take on the “Offside” rule? Chances are, it’s a little...
Digital Risk Management and Intelligence

Digital Risk Management and Intelligence

By Dr. Nina Mohadjer, LL.M Even today, more than five years on from the pandemic-induced exodus from the office, companies are still grappling to comprehend...
Crisis management in digital age

Managing Crises in the Digital Age

By Edward Segal In today’s hyperconnected world, crises spread rapidly through social media, amplifying misinformation and shaping public perception. This article outlines how leaders can...
Modern AI and technology concept with glowing circular nodes and connections.

How European Businesses Can Protect Themselves From AI Information Vacuums

By Jonathan Armstrong As AI adoption accelerates across Europe, a new and often overlooked risk is emerging known as AI information vacuums. With search engines...
digital twin technology

Digital Twins 101: The Virtual Strategy Reshaping How Businesses Operate

By Terence Tse Does your company run complex machinery for which downtime would mean serious costs? A digital twin could be just what's needed. If your...
3D illustration of cliff with figures arranged. Crisis of Insularity concept

Are We Facing “A Crisis of Insularity” or Has Management Simply Rediscovered the Moon?

By Dr Leandro Herrero The managerial temptation is to take a permanent feature of social organisation, give it the status of a newly discovered crisis,...

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