We help large organisations, critical infrastructure providers and government agencies overcome the challenges in building resilience

ORGANISATIONAL RESILIENCE

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in Organsational Resilience

Many of our clients operate in high-risk industries with large numbers of external stakeholders, regulators and significant community expectations. Our Organisational Resilience programs, frameworks and tools have successfully been embedded in leading organisations operating in critical infrastructure industries both in Australia and overseas.

Executive and Board Crisis Training

Janellis have been working with executive leadership teams in building their crisis management expertise for over ten years and understand that the Executive Team and the Board has a key role in preparing for and responding to a crisis.

We have a robust executive capability development process that has been applied to corporates, infrastructure groups and government agencies. Our crisis tools and training programs are aimed at improving the capabilities of people and teams in their decision making and response process.

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War Room

Organisational or industry ‘war rooms’ are a way for executives to come together in a focused session to collaborate on complex problems.

Enabled in a virtual setting utilising digital collaboration technology the ‘war room’ enhances team collaboration and communication, and information flow on strategic problems and opportunities.

This type of focused activity enables better problem solving, decision making, planning and strategy development. This is enabled by using a robust process that facilitates an in-depth analysis of the problem drawing upon the brains trust of the organisation.

Executive Scenario-based Planning

Scenario-based planning is a tool for further analysing and understanding the potential impacts of an identified threat or vulnerability to the business, and exploring options and approaches for minimising the potential likelihood, and the negative impact.

Scenario modelling can help to understand the level of planning and readiness required to manage the risk, and assist in raising awareness of the risk.

Scenario-based planning should be used for those ‘catastrophic risks’ assessed to have a major or significant consequence, of which we have limited understanding, irrespective of the likelihood. These are often risks that are too expensive to mitigate, or are a result of multiple risks escalating, compounding or converging in an unlikely way.

Catastrophic or extreme events usually require a significant or coordinated response capability across the organisation and with external parties. This is particularly important where the consequences of these risks may include intense political, media or community interest and/or the potential loss of confidence from key stakeholders.

Multi-Agency Capability Awareness Programs

A crisis by its very nature is going to challenge any team. The interdependencies that exist between organisations means that diverse stakeholder groups will need to work together in a significant emergency or crisis event to respond effectively.

Capabilities and plans need to be aligned with critical suppliers and relevant agencies who would need to work together. This applies to all organisations to some degree but critical infrastructure providers have an added level of community expectation and critical dependencies.

Conducting regular multi-agency awareness sessions allows organisations to understand where gaps exist, prior to an event occurring. Organisations must be proactive in identifying stakeholder groups they need to work with in an emergency or crisis to understand what they can do to support one another during an event.

Janellis multi-agency workshops involve executive crisis teams, emergency management teams, local emergency services agencies, government and critical suppliers coming together in an interactive hypothetical activity to raise awareness and create alignment around emergency management.

Crisis Communications

Most organisations have considered the role of communications as part of the response effort. However, often the communications team has not clearly defined it’s structure and process to ensure it can operate effectively in coordination with other teams and as a team itself.

We work with both communications teams and individuals within crisis management teams to build their capability and confidence to craft communications strategy, create key messages and engage effectively with key stakeholders before, during and after crisis events.

Key recommendations for developing and implementing crisis communications capability are:

Clearly defining roles and responsibilities for communications within all response teams
Creating a suite of pre-populated communication templates to accelerate development and delivery of stakeholder communication during an event
Ensuring any employee who may be called on to be a spokesperson in a crisis has undergone formal media training
Schedule, develop and facilitate a desktop / hypothetical to review the crisis communications capability in a scenario-based environment
Revise or amend any of the communications plans and concepts based on input and feedback from the scenario-based activity.

Exercise Development and Delivery

Crisis Management exercising is the process of applying the team and individual skills in an operating environment through scenario-based group activities. We use experiential-style training including hypotheticals, workshops, simulations and field exercises.

Scenario-based exercises allow us to highlight and refine the process for making decisions, gaining consensus and creating a plan of action.

In developing exercise programs, we follow a proven process which includes scoping, designing, facilitating and reporting. Our approach ensures there is a shared vision of the requirements and outcomes for the exercise including:

the drivers for that particular exercise/event
stakeholders to be involved
elements to be tested
elements to be trained
tools, plans and facilities to be used.

A detailed post-event report is produced and presented to the relevant stakeholders to review how the team worked against the key objectives set.

Post-incident/crisis Review

Post-incident/crisis reviews offer an independent evaluation of how teams have responded to an incident or crisis event that has occurred. We benchmark the response against our ‘better practice’ organisational resilience framework using a structured approach to:

Evaluate the use of plans, process, frameworks, and tools
Validate the decision-making of the team/s
Strengthen future incident or crisis response

Creating “Lessons Learned” is an effective way to improve incident and crisis response planning and procedures and to build resilience into an organisation to respond to a range of potential threats the organisation may face.

Emergency and Crisis Management Response Tools

Janellis have developed a suite of crisis management ‘integrated decision making’ and ‘business impact’ tools that can be customised and implemented across an organisation or industry.

Our experts then train and guide teams on using the tools, helping them be more effective in ‘cutting through’ the issues they face.

About our Response Tools

Our decision tools support teams in developing critical thinking, both individually and as a group. They also facilitate:

Situational awareness – understanding of the facts and assumptions
Ability to prioritise
Understanding of impacts across the business
Decision making
Ability to develop tactical and strategic plans under the pressure of tight timelines.

“I would like to thank Janellis who started this journey with us. We may not have been the easiest Client to have worked with but you stuck with us and we appreciate that. We are grateful for the opportunities to continue to build our resilience by working with our critical suppliers and other leading Australian companies

QANTAS – Chief Risk Officer

“Following the recent Government announement, there is a renewed focus on the ownership and resilience of Australia’s national critical infrastructure.

The diverse number of threats and the need for an ‘all hazards’ approach presents significant challenges to owners and operators of critical infrastructure.”

What is Organisational Resilience?

Preventing and preparing for a crisis requires multiple disciplines including: effective risk management, incident management, emergency management, business continuity, disaster recovery and crisis communications.

These inter-dependencies and ever-changing risk landscape have led organisations to view risk and crisis management within a broader and integrated context known as organisational resilience.

Many organisations face unique risks based on their industry but a common approach to building resilience is being adopted across industries and this includes:

Taking a strategic approach by embedding an integrated organisational resilience framework that is endorsed by the board and provides assurance to the executive and other key stakeholders

Creating a governance structure that includes a steering committee, allocation of resources (internal and external) and a program that reflects current risks, vulnerabilities, maturity, priorities, and reporting requirements

Integrating and embedding critical thinking through the use of tools, plans, training, testing and exercising.

Digital Solutions

Digital solutions are transforming the way businesses operate.

Our custom-designed online platforms can communicate emergency and crisis management information to a broad group of stakeholders on multiple devices – for both training and response purposes.

Our digital crisis management solutions also aid teams in being agile and informed in crisis situations. This includes rapid notifications, access to internal data, media information and resources – assisting teams to communicate efficiently, effectively and make critical decisions.

From resilience portals to help your teams access critical information in plans, to online decision support tools that are available 24/7 on handheld devices. Our solutions give key decision makers access to the right information at the right time.

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Resilience Frameworks and Reporting Tools

To ensure organisations can respond to low probability but high consequence risks (catastrophic risks) requires a resilience framework that goes ‘beyond risk management’ which embeds both a strong culture of risk management as well as an adaptive culture and capability to respond.

An Organisational Resilience Framework builds upon existing risk practices to assist all areas of the business in developing an integrated and coordinated capability to anticipate, adapt and respond to a range of threats that may impact or disrupt business, people or assets.

Resilience Frameworks

Our International Organisational Resilience Framework is being used as a roadmap for organisations starting their resilience journey as well as an assurance tool for organisations that already have the capability.

Organisational Resilience brings together all elements of capability under one enterprise-wide framework. It allows organisations to visually and virtually connect all aspects of resilience including: Risk Management, Security, Incident and Emergency Management, Crisis Management, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery.