Recent world events have challenged us to prepare and manage previously unthinkable situations that may threaten an organization’s future. This new challenge goes beyond the mere emergency response plan or disaster management activities that were previously employed. Today’s threats require the creation of an ongoing, interactive process that serves to assure the continuation of an organization’s core activities before, during, and most importantly, after a major crisis event.

Regardless of the organization, its leadership has a duty to stakeholders to plan for its survival. It is almost mortal to make wrong assumptions…an assumption that history will NOT repeat itself. Not everything should be considered and stereotyped as “Act of God” as through appropriate and sincerely implemented contingency strategies, those can be either avoided or minimized…Read more