Author: Jeff Morgan

Many of the industries refer to organizations like Aviem and the Foundation with the term “vendors,” or “providers.” However, when faced with a significant crisis or disaster, is that all you need? There are many discussions today that involve the terms complex versus complicated. Experts disagree as to whether these are synonyms or if they have a different meaning. I won’t jump into that discussion but will say that we consider a significant disaster response to be both complex and complicated. Responding to a crisis is complex as it requires coordination between many tasks and activities, and a certain...

I’ve had the privilege of interacting with many different organizations in the past year including current clients, prospective clients, attendees at emergency planning workshops, and other similar functions. What was somewhat surprising to me were the number of companies who had an emergency plan, but have never exercised it. One critical aspect of creating an emergency plan is to test it. Most realize that they should, however they have not for any number of reasons. When thinking about exercises, several parallels come to mind: • Not exercising your plan is like reading the driver’s manual, but never getting into...