Business Continuity and Crisis Management Consultants
When your company ends up on the news for its next (inevitable) data breach, will your company know what to say, who will do the “saying,” and how you plan to follow up with media requests? In other words, has your company learned to build a crisis communications strategy? If your company is known for …
How to Build a Crisis Communications Strategy from ScratchRead More
After a long year of working with consultants, querying and coordinating with your departments, building out crisis plans and messaging, and exercising them with your people, you’ve FINALLY checked the box on “set up a crisis management program.” Your crisis management plans are neatly collated in their new plastic-smelling binders and that extravagant fire extinguisher …
How to Successfully Grow in Year Two of Your Crisis Management ProgramRead More
As your company’s newly assigned head of global security, you’ve just been informed that running your organization’s business continuity program falls squarely within your role. But what is business continuity? Sure, you’re a battle-tested veteran in managing security for large-scale enterprises. Business continuity? Not so much. The revelation leaves you feeling a lot like that time you …
Gaining traction for business continuity and crisis management activities with people (who aren’t already on the business continuity bandwagon) has always been challenging. And now we’re stuck in a crisis fatigue hangover of unprecedented proportions. It’s no surprise that nearly every single business continuity professional we talk to right now is struggling to get their …
How to Gain Traction for your Business Continuity ProgramRead More
Meditate. Exercise. Take a break from social media. For crisis managers struggling to keep their teams motivated and engaged, advice like this (which is mostly what is being meted out right now) feels cliche and remarkably unhelpful. Like your doctor telling you to eat less and exercise more to lose weight. If it were that …
Not all crises come with a silver lining. But in the case of COVID, its global reach earned the discipline of crisis management fresh interest, as crisis management savvy organizations quickly stood apart from their lesser prepared counterparts. Like one of our clients, a large technology company, based in the U.S. but with extensive operations …
Beyond ROI: The Value of Effective Crisis ManagementRead More
What does it take to write, record, edit, and produce one of the leading Crisis Management & Business Continuity podcasts in the world? In this article, we’re going to take you behind the scenes of Bryghtpath’s Managing Uncertainty podcast and show you exactly how we put out an episode every single week of …
Behind the Scenes of the Managing Uncertainty PodcastRead More
Pandemics, droughts, floods, school shootings, political turmoil, war. Is it just me, or does it seem like a lot of us are stuck in a riptide of never-ending crises? Flailing arms, saltwater up our noses, a mild sense of panic at what lurks below, and exhaustion setting in. Yet now is not the time to …
Using Crisis Microsimulations to Counter Crisis Fatigue and Boost ResilienceRead More
