A complete risk analysis is a complex task, but the questions below are a good start.

If you answer "yes" to all of the following questions - then you have a crisis management plan and team already in place. We can conduct a risk analysis, and can audit your plan to ensure its effectiveness. We can spot common mistakes, analyze the strengths/weaknesses of your plan, and help you fill in the gaps.

If you answer "no" to some of the questions - we'll help you create and implement a crisis management plan.

Either way, we can provide critical planning and training that is based, not on textbook methods, but on field-tested strategies and best practices gleaned from years of experience with organizations before, during, and after different types of crises.

	Have you defined and communicated precisely what constitutes a corporate crisis?
	Is there a formal Corporate Crisis Management Team?
	Can you identify the team leader? The core members?
	Do you know what the team is expected to do?
	Are there documented activation and assessment plans?
	Has the team ever conducted a crisis simulation exercise?
	Does the team have clearly identified lines of communication and command with your lines of businesses?
	Are you a member of that Corporate Crisis Team?

	Is there a formal response team for the line of business?
	Is there a documented line of business crisis management plan?
	Are your business continuity plans designed to dovetail into your crisis management plan?
	Has the line of business ever conducted an exercise of the documented response plan?
	Does the line of business team perform periodic coordinated exercises with the corporate team?
	Is this line of business part of the corporate team?
	Have you clearly identified those situations within your line of business that could become a corporate crisis?
	Does your crisis team know when to escalate a problem to the corporate crisis management team?
	Are there annual emergency response drills (i.e, facility evacuation drills?)

	Are there teams of people in place to support corporate and business line crisis response?
	Do the teams have functional plans describing their roles and methods?
	Do these plans establish lateral lines of communication across functional areas?
	Do your employees understand their role during a crisis?
	Have critical areas been identified, and do they participate in exercises at the line of business and corporate level?

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