Corporate crisis prevention is a kind of insurance that every company, small, medium or large, should implement responsibly to keep threats to their business under control. It is based on an accurate analysis of operational risks related to safety, health and the environment, to the harmful changes in the market, to the regulatory evolution of its products, to the change in key positions in the company, to problems in the supply chain, etc.
Anasco has the skills and experience to guide client companies in this multivalent analysis and provide an objective and thoughtful picture of the situation, with which to carry out strategic assessments and plan prevention and mitigation actions. Sometimes, even if the probability of dangerous events occurring is not high, the size of the consequences is so important that it is much more convenient to take precautions than to live with the risk, especially if the precautions do not involve large investments. But it is necessary to know well which preventive activities to implement and how to do it and in this Anasco is very useful and reliable!
The management of a corporate crisis, whether due to environmental problems, safety (accidents), economic-financial stress or product responsibility, involves the establishment of a work team and specialized processes and supports that are different from those of the current business management. Anasco is responsible for providing active support, in the field, to implement the strategies, management processes and mechanisms necessary when the crisis starts, up to the return of the company to the current management with minimization of the impact on profitability.
What happens when a corporate enters a crisis
Management in the context of the crisis is different from the regular management of the company.
During a crisis, the objectives to be respected are very short, in a context of a stressed organization that is bombarded by chaotic and unpredictable events and it is necessary to understand who to rely on to cope with them. It is necessary to understand what urgent actions to take immediately, having to provide presence or availability 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.
When you enter a crisis, the rules change: you find yourself in a sort of "war in defense". It is necessary to prepare beforehand, in “times of peace", so as to be better prepared in the event of an adverse event, minimizing losses and already preparing the ground for recovery.
What Anasco offer to cope with a crisis
What do we do to enable you to manage a crisis at best?
Responsiveness and speed during a crisis are of paramount importance. Our team of professionals takes care to quickly assess the business situation and its possible degenerations, working alongside the management and technicians and forming with them a "crisis cell" which becomes the fulcrum that interfaces with all internal functions and with external stakeholders. If necessary, lobbing companies or press agencies are involved for communication, or specialized law firms for both civil and criminal matters. In the event that settlement procedures and bankruptcy law were to be used, Anasco can support the company with experienced reliable partners and consultants who help to bring the company back to profitability or to restructure the organization in an optimal way. All carried out in continuous contact and agreement with the owners or top management.
If you do not react promptly at the management and organization level, the crisis can have a lethal escalation for the company which enters a spiral of nefarious events!
The secret to avoiding finding yourself in the unpleasant condition of crisis is to operate in prevention, focusing on potential risk conditions and simulating their occurrence and possible operational degenerations. Therefore, you can prepare countermeasures and organize the training to be done to your own structure, also in relation to the control of your reactions, the creation of work teams and the controlled release of information, both internally and externally.
The importance of crisis prevention
The managers of Anasco, having experience of corporate crises, are able to support their management, stemming their harmful drifts, but they can also provide all the key elements to prevent crises: in fact, we also and above all do prevention by supporting analysis and risk mitigation and training and preparation for managing the consequences of major accidents, catastrophic events or major legal or economic-financial problems. We have specialists who verify the procedures highlighting the weak points that could generate damage or crisis situations, suggesting their revision in collaboration with the sector managers.
All this must be prepared first, in periods of relative tranquility, because while facing a crisis there is no time for learning and it is absolutely necessary to act and react in real time following a studied and perhaps predetermined procedure to avoid dangerous organizational and managerial frays. Anasco provides the preparation of personnel and the organizational structure on how to prevent or deal with a crisis, but also for the subsequent management, once the event has taken place, on how to restart the business effectively and efficiently without suffering excessively from the legacy of the crisis.
Who should implement crisis prevention?
It is not said that only large companies should have a crisis prevention and management system or that it is necessary to spend large sums to set up a crisis prevention and management system. As insurance premiums are paid to be compensated (never completely) for the damage suffered by accidents, perhaps it is even wiser and more convenient to invest minimally in order not to suffer company crises at all or to minimize any impacts.
In our opinion, it is essential that every company, of any size, does all it can to prevent and prepare to face a crisis of any kind, depending on its operating environment, reference market, geographic location or organizational structure.
Why turn to Anasco
In crisis prevention and management, Anasco supports the company in the preparation of all systems, such as operating procedures and the organization of emergency containment activities, in all respects. Also from a management point of view, this preparation is needful in the event that the accident really occurs and therefore it is necessary to have a multifunctional team already defined and prepared to face the consequences both internally and externally, rather than on the market or with local authorities.
This is why we also offer a corporate image management service, proper communication with customers, suppliers, proactive relationships with the media and we do it with competence and experience.
At your side, we help you in all aspects: prevention, internal management, relations with customers, institutions, authorities, media, stakeholders.
What crisis do we deal with?
Environmental, accidents, public health problems, market unexpected events, problems caused by strategic suppliers, sabotage or economic-financial drifts that could lead to bankruptcy conditions or personal responsibility of the management.
We take care of the strategic and management part, putting our skills and experience on the plate, as well as a pool of experienced and competent companies, to evaluate the situation in its entirety, carrying out in-depth analysis and offering direct help, involving sector specialists if necessary, including legal, which are essential above all to deal with a potential bankruptcy procedure or to protect management from objective personal liability.
Anasco can boast a deep knowledge of legal issues in times of crisis applied to industry in all their facets. These problems must be considered, both in the preventive and in the reactive phases, on the root problem or on those potentially induced. We can work with experienced professionals at various levels of expertise and costs.