Moving From Crisis Management to Creating Resilient Organizations In Anticipation of the Next Crisis

A new reality has been set in the world. That reality is the movement of people and goods, globally, provides a new set of opportunities and challenges, which specifically cannot be predicted, but should be anticipated. Today's crisis is the disease, coronavirus disease, (COVID-19), and the virus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). And the next could be another virus. It could be an internet outage of a massive scale. It could be a terrorist attack. It could be a ….. It is a bit unnerving that the reaction of most organizations is just that – reactive and crisis driven. Perhaps now is the time to look at active approaches for developing resilient organizations, in anticipation of the next disruptive event. Yes, I have introduced a word that we will now amplify. Event Modeling and Analysis is an approach that EACOE and BACOE take with our clients to enumerate and analyze the expected and the unexpected. Let’s better prepare for the next disruption.