CRISIS & COMMUNICATION
The Crisis & Communication Plan is the tool for effectively dealing with a crisis that threatens the strategic objectives, reputation or profitability of the company.
What is a crisis?
- A critical event often turns into a communication crisis when it becomes public knowledge or when there is even the possibility that it may become so.
- A crisis is an unexpected situation that threatens the strategic objectives, reputation or profitability of the company (such as an administrative or criminal investigation, a scandal, an accident at work with loss of life, a media attack on the healthiness or effectiveness of products, a building fire or a serious IT incident).
- The company's control over information flows is today less effective due to the spread of social networks which allow direct communications between people that are difficult to predict. Therefore, the response to a crisis must be rapid and effective to communicate the company's point of view and the measures it has adopted to external and internal interlocutors (authorities, media, customers, shareholders, employees and so on).
The Crisis & communication plan:
the solution
The best form of prevention is a Crisis & Communication Plan to avoid:
- The degeneration of the crisis into an emergency situation Damage to strategic objectives, reputation and profitability The emergence of further risk situations