{"id":313,"date":"2017-09-05T22:16:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T22:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clearviewcom.com\/?p=313"},"modified":"2018-03-27T20:56:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T00:56:29","slug":"a-ready-risk-analysis-process-can-help-ceos-avoid-a-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clearviewcom.com\/a-ready-risk-analysis-process-can-help-ceos-avoid-a-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"A risk analysis process can help CEOs avoid a crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"
If it\u2019s not managed effectively, the answer is clearly \u201cyes.\u201d As a CEO, that fact might be one of the concerns that keeps you awake at night. The chances are good you won\u2019t even see the crisis coming unless you take steps now to assess your vulnerabilities. \u00a0Where are the soft spots, the areas most likely to generate a corporate, product or organizational crisis? Just how vulnerable are you? The only way to answer those questions is to roll up your sleeves and start digging.<\/p>\n
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Appoint action teams from top management to conduct an exhaustive, company-wide vulnerability audit. Personally hold the teams accountable to provide solutions and action plans that will eliminate weaknesses and minimize the effects of a crisis. Then, start building your crisis management plan. The crisis management plan is a blueprint for how you will react to, manage, survive and emerge from a corporate, organizational or product crisis.<\/p>\n
In the first step, the risk analysis, where do the teams start?\u00a0\u00a0In most businesses and organizations, the areas of operation in which vulnerability to a crisis is most severe are:<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a look at all four areas, complete with some suggestions and some questions for which the action teams had better find answers. It is a foregone conclusion that you will identify other questions and discover other areas of vulnerability within your organization, but these points provide you with a strong start.<\/p>\n
This team will:<\/p>\n
This team will:<\/p>\n
This team will:<\/p>\n
This team will:<\/p>\n
Composed of CEO, VPs for corporate communications, human resources, legal and a top manager from every operating unit, the Plan Oversight and Development Team:<\/p>\n
CEOs who cannot plan to be 110 percent supportive of this process and take part in it fully risk wasting their time and the time of their key personnel because the process will fail without you. Time after time, crisis management planning procedures have been launched with good intentions all around, only to be derailed by a lack of genuine support from the top. Don\u2019t start the process unless you intend to be fully involved throughout all phases, and then play a major role in managing the plan going forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Could a corporate crisis put your business out of business, or cause a major financial setback? If it\u2019s not managed effectively, the answer is clearly \u201cyes.\u201d As a CEO, that fact might be one of the concerns that keeps you awake at night. The chances are good you won\u2019t even see the crisis coming unless […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n