Crises Control, the global mass notification, multi-channel, communications platform and crisis response solution has been named by GSL Magazine as one of the 20 most innovative companies of 2020. This is just the latest in a series of award wins for Crises Control since it was launched in 2016, including being named by Computing Magazine as the Cloud DR and Continuity Product of the Year and Unified Communications Product of the Year in the Cloud Excellence Awards 2019.

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Industry awards are a great way of recognising excellence in product development and an outstanding contribution towards customer success. The Computing Magazine Cloud Excellence Awards recognise the very best of the UK's cloud industry, from the most innovative and compelling products and vendors, through to the top use cases from end-user firms.

The CIR Magazine Risk Management Awards 2020 celebrate excellence in the field of risk management and are the pinnacle of achievement in the field – recognising the best people, products and programmes in risk management for a decade.

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The unprecedented disruptive impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in a unique window of opportunity for business continuity professionals according to new research from the Business Continuity Institute.

The Covid-19 outbreak has amplified the need for fast, insightful and transparent communications during a crisis. It is their communications with employees, stakeholders and customers that is truly defining those organisations that have adapted most effectively to the pandemic.

Few would have predicted the catastrophic consequences that the coronavirus has had on business operations, finances, staffing and the wider economy, with the aftershock of the global pandemic felt across nearly every industry. What the last few months have taught businesses, however, is the importance of having robust continuity plans and risk management frameworks in place to help mitigate the impact of any future crises.

Crises Control is generating media coverage for its new pandemic response toolkits which allow its customers across the globe to reach out to employees and stakeholders with critical messages and company announcements as offices reopen and furloughed staff return to work.

The Covid-19 pandemic raises a number of very significant issues for business continuity and even business survival. These issues include employee availability, supply chain disruption and social distancing. As companies return to full operations, they will have to adapt to a new normal with significantly changed business operating models.

Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) is the Business Continuity Institute's annual global campaign to raise awareness of the resilience profession and demonstrate the value of effective business continuity management to organizations of all types and sizes.

Crises Control is delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted twice in the BCI European Awards 2020, in the categories of Continuity & Resilience Provider and Continuity & Resilience Innovation.

Operational resilience requirements for companies in financial services are about to get a lot tougher and firms need to start planning now how they are going to meet them. In December 2019, the three top UK financial regulators, the Bank of England, Prudential Regulation Authority and Financial Conduct Authority published a joint consultation paper on new requirements to strengthen operational resilience in the financial services sector.

The purse strings have been well and truly opened at Crises Control as the company has announced a major expansion in the Gulf, delivering services from a new data center region in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (the KSA).

Crises Control has been shortlisted in the CIR Business Continuity Awards of Excellence for the fourth year in a row. The Business Continuity Awards are the definitive mark of excellence in the sector, celebrating the past year's greatest successes in business continuity, security and resilience.

With the novel Coronavirus COVID19 now present in more than 35 countries and more than 80,000 infections reported, the World Health Organisation is believed to be on the verge of declaring a global pandemic. The impact on the world economy is already significant, with global supply chains from China massively disrupted, and the impact on business will continue to grow for some time whatever the trajectory of the outbreak from here on.

Way back in digital pre-history, say around 2004, before the explosion of web 2.0 and social media, the telephone call tree had its place. It was a clever way of getting a message out by telephone to a group of people using the power of the group, with each contact in the call tree calling 1 or 2 others to pass the message along. That way 1 could become 2 then 4, 8, 16, 32 and so on.

Crises Control, the global mass notification, multi-channel, communications platform and crisis response solution is delighted to announce that it has won the title of Most Innovative Mass Notification & Security Platform in the Corporate Excellence Awards 2020 sponsored by Corporate Vision magazine.

All businesses must navigate a rapidly changing risk environment characterised by globalisation, disruptive technologies, increasing supply chains, climate change and an accelerating rate of change in markets and society.All businesses must navigate a rapidly changing risk environment characterised by globalisation, disruptive technologies, increasing supply chains, climate change and an accelerating rate of change in markets and society.