Are You Ready For ‘The Dance’?

Tomas Pueyo talked of  ‘the hammer’ needed to tackle the immediate impacts of coronavirus and ‘the dance’ as we navigate towards recovery. That dance has begun. In this weekend’s Sunday Times Business Risk Special Report we share our thoughts on how coronavirus has exposed resilience...

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In Crisis Tempo Is King

In a previous post we explored the process associated with taking informed decisions in a crisis and hinted that in Crisis Tempo is King. In that article we raised the concept of speeding up how quickly you move through the decision making process to be sure that your decisions are both well...

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Crisis Team Dynamics

Passing the invocation decision for crisis and incident plans to a team may help to address the individual biases outlined in our previous blog post. However there are many issues relating to Crisis Team Dynamics that could still militate a wrong decision, from the culture of the organisation,...

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Crisis Decision Making Biases

Spare a moment of thought for those who have crisis decision making responsibilities.  Hindsight is a wonderful thing and we can all be critical of such decisions in the comfort of the office or coffee room. Crisis decision making is a pressured environment in which decisions are necessary but...

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Decisions, Decisions, Decisions!

We’ve been talking on our blog recently about supporting crisis decision making through information management, and attempting to speed up the OODA Loop. On the last post we highlighted the principles of managing decisions and making sure they achieve what you intended them to. This post looks...

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Crisis Decision Making – Top 5 Tips

In previous posts we examined information management and operating a fast OODA Loop. This post looks at some tools to help crisis decision-making. Here are five things to consider. 1. Key Questions: Have a system to guide your decision making that analyses the situation and allows you to use...

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