Business travel has long been essential to organizations looking to triumph across national and international landscapes. However, the evolving impacts of COVID-19 brought dramatic changes to the world of travel and put business travelers at an increased risk of harm.

Hurricanes pose immense risk to the safety of an organization’s people, the continuity of operations, and the connectivity of communications systems. During a hurricane, critical event managers must be able to communicate crucial safety information to the people for which they are responsible. In addition to hurricane preparedness, critical event managers should ready their business in the case of any severe weather event.

A smart building is any structure that uses automated processes to automatically control a building’s operations, according to Phillip Tracy from RCR Wireless. As technology has evolved, buildings have become smarter. Smart buildings using Critical Event Management (CEM) systems are even more technologically advanced.

Organizations have had no choice but to continually adapt over the last few years, especially when it comes to protecting their traveling employees. In simpler times, organizations worried about missing or outdated passports, a rare airline food poisoning incident, weather delays, and turbulence. Today, increased canceled flights, thinning airline staff, closed borders, vaccine testing, and potential quarantining have stressed organizations looking to protect traveling employees.

Crisis Management is an organization’s process- and strategy-based approach for identifying and responding to a threat, an unanticipated event, or any negative disruption with the potential to harm people, property, or business processes. Being prepared for any event to become a crisis requires a crisis management plan.

More organizations are requiring solutions that can automate and streamline digital operations across teams and toolsets, enabling enterprises to deliver continuous service uptime and enhance customer satisfaction.