Can situational awareness help you fight, rather than flight ?
Here is a situation. It’s dooms day, fire ball, black skies, there is grief in the air and deafening noise of heart pounding.
Such is the aura of a crisis day.
Is your well invested, skillfully trained champion, willing to stay put ?
Flight or Fight is fundamental outcome of crisis situations. How well invested is your knowledge base, your plan activator, your knighted hero who the business continuity plan is dependent on, is willing to stay back and fight for ?
The ISO standard, striking benchmark reports, heavy consultant teams, often miss to account for the flight or fight dilemma.
There are one a many post incident reports and crisis accounts, that scream of decision makers scurrying away fearful of the challenge at hand or have a genuine moral responsibility that trumps the role of a crisis manager or a business continuity champion.
Consider a hurricane occurs. There are situations wherein heads of the family have to make a difficult choice between staying back at work, so that business operations can continue without a hitch or leaving to their families to ensure their safety. Often, the second option prevails.
So, where does that leave businesses and workplaces? How can you continue with your business operations and services, without some of the most critical members of your team?
The answer lies in identifying the fundamental advantage of being physically present.
We believe that advantage lies within the term “Situational Awareness”
The ability to perceive the extent of problems at hand, provides the advantage to counter the unpredictable fountain of conflicting priorities.
An AI assistant, perhaps could jump into aid at this scenario. An assistant that can provide data real time based on the damage occurred. A software that helps forecast impacts based on the scenarios chosen. The ability to predict, evaluate, decide and implement, is the secret sauce of being able to identify opportunities within every crisis.
Equipping crisis and business continuity teams with such powerful situational awareness tools, such as BCM next equips the fore front and strategic executives the assurance to be able to play pro battling a minefield.
The ability to develop such culture through mindful investments should be real time, on demand and within reach.
BCM next is real time, on demand and within reach now.
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