Corporate Crisis Management Blog

Technology is advancing - more quickly than many crisis communicators can track and adapt in their practices.

However, we are all getting increasingly comfortable with the speed and effectiveness of getting tasks completed with one press of an icon on our smartphones.

We are biased – we are a little obsessed with the world of crisis management.

However, in many respects, 2018 has been a doozy for a dizzying array of a new kind of issues, threats and risks.

Conventional wisdom is that the higher up the hierarchy of an organization you go to address crisis management, the more the idea of issues preparedness and risk identification will be welcomed and understood.

Reputation threats and crisis management used to be core to the role of corporate communicators, especially CCOs.

This is a sampling of the issues included in a single edition {my emphasis!} in late October of the wonderful Risk & Compliance daily newsletter published by the Wall Street Journal:

If you are one of the most famous sporting apparel companies in the globe and consumers were rushing to social media to video themselves burning your shoes, then that’s a crisis – right?

Wrong! The real answer is, not necessarily.

Next stop on the great In Case of Crisis October road trip is Washington DC.

We are a supporting partner at the Provoke 18 Global PR Summit, hosted by the Holmes Group, beginning on Monday October 22.

Presenting on ‘The ten golden rules for crisis management in the digital age’ to 80 crisis managers from all kinds and size of organization is a really good way to discover what is really on the minds of professionals in these strange and uncertain times.