Crisis Managment – Preamble – What you really need.

If your boss just asked you to create a crisis plan because of the Swine Flue scare, and you just started working on it, STOP. Stop wasting your time, just to make him/her feel good about themselves.

I have seen a few blogs on this, a few tweets on twitter, and I am going to do my part and write a few posts to get people through this. I am not trying to sell you anything, my posts will not lead you anywhere to sign up to get the 10 things you need to do. I am going to share my experience from doing this type of work for companies as big as 120 thousand employees to smaller ones of 100 employees.

Blog post 1: The basics

Blog post 2: What to put in your plan

Blog post 3: What to do with your plan.

But first some definitions.

Many who are in the business of selling their crisis planning services will tell you that there is a big difference between Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity and Crisis Management. Those in your organization who drink the cool aid do so thinking they need to be in charge of this, usually HR talks about BC, IT talks DR, PR talks Crisis Management. My opinion their are all the same, and if they are not done right, they are equally worth less, so don’t get hung up.

Next up, the first post. Stay tuned