Be Prepared

Prevention - The challenges in the areas of Risk Management, Business Continuity Management and Crisis Management have changed dramatically during the last years. The significance of risk management for the entire sector was clear even before the current financial markets crisis rose up. The risks for the business-critical processes of companies, agencies and organizations have changed over the past years and have magnified their repercussive effects. The declaration of a global pandemic alarm due to the swine flu H1N1 by the World Health Organization (WHO) on June 11, 2009 showed the necessity of functioning business continuity and crisis management for companies of every scale and in every sector.