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Crisis Management in the Digital Age: Lessons for 2024’s Unpredictable Economy

N2Growth Blog

There is friction between globalization and regional autonomy, a conflict between the desire for sustainability and the lure of rapid development, ongoing political uncertainties, and the ever-increasing impact of digital technology. Engaging in risk management and scenario planning is also paramount.

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Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader | In the CEO.

In the CEO Afterlife

Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader. Ever since the Tylenol tampering recall of 30 years ago, the performances of companies in crisis have come under public scrutiny. Ever since the Tylenol tampering recall of 30 years ago, the performances of companies in crisis have come under public scrutiny. Main menu Home.

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Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future

Leading Blog

In a time of crisis, we need to know more. We can develop scenarios to “identify and test how and where the future and the present meet.” Scenario planning always surfaces conflict and there is always a moment when everything seems to fall apart. So, if we can’t predict the future, what can we do?

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A Practical Approach to Managing Workforce During COVID-19

HR Digest

COVID-19 is the most severe crisis since the Second World War: companies are losing workforce rapidly around the world. At the heart of any organization’s talent management strategy is headcount planning to ensure that it has the right number of talent with the right skills. Hire from inside your company.

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Is Your Company Ready to Protect Its Reputation from Deep Fakes?

Harvard Business Review

But that technology is still in its early stages, and as it develops you can be sure that bad actors will be working on ways to defeat it. In addition, companies must begin to factor deep fakes and other reality-distortion techniques into their crisis-scenario planning.

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China’s Slowdown: The First Stage of the Bullwhip Effect

Harvard Business Review

During an economic crisis, the exaggerated decline in orders can be especially damaging to upstream suppliers that have high fixed costs tied to production assets. Ford CEO Alan Mulally tried to mitigate the impending bullwhip during the 2008 financial crisis by imploring the U.S. The China-Sparked Crisis. automobile industry.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 4 of 4

Strategy Driven

Crisis management is so much more than handling of the media. Business development. We therefore mounted a full-scope crisis management initiative that focused heavily on after-the-crisis help for the victims and their families. Our strategy to address the crisis was three-fold. Thinking Through the Strategies.