IT-support for adaptation of complex systems is widely available if the environment is predictable, the possible actions are limited and repeatable, the system is homogeneous in organisation, or the system is centralised. The domain of crisis management, however, violates all of these conditions. Crises are highly dynamic and chaotic, therefore solutions differ not only from one crisis to anoth...

4.1 Introduction Crisis management teams (e.g. fire and rescue services, anti-terrorist units ...) are often confronted with dramatic situations where critical decisions have to be made within hard time constraints. In these circumstances, a complete overview of the crisis site is necessary to take correct decisions. However, obtaining such a complete overview of a complex site is not possible ...

Many organizational leaders have a laissez faire attitude toward the possibility of a crisis happening in their firm, despite the high probability that every business leader and every organization will experience a crisis of some significance. Consequently, leaders are underprepared not only for “managing” crisis situations when they occur, but also—and more important—for leading organizations ...

Human society is vulnerable to various crises, ranging from hazardous exposure, natural disasters (hurricanes and forest fires), to organized terrorist attacks threatening national security. Although geographical information are widely applied to critical decisions for crisis management, recent field studies have shown that GIS are rarely used by crisis managers at the time of actual crises, be...

Increase of emergency incidents and crisis situations requires proactive crisis management of authorities and for its solution. Application Business Continuity Management helps the crisis management authorities to quickly and responsibly respond to threats. It also helps effectively and efficiently planning powers and resources. The main goal of this article is describing Military Continuity Ma...

One problem for public safety organizations in a disaster is the management of response activities and their dependencies on an intra-and inter-organizational level. Our interviews with end users have shown that current solutions for managing activities are complicated to use in the crisis by teams in the field and also in operation centers, when facing continuous unexpected events and cross-or...

Serious Games (SG) are more and more used for training in various domains, and notably in the crisis management domain. Crisis management can gather several hundred stakeholders, which can present various difficulties when organizing field exercises. Serious Game constitutes a more practical alternative with specific benefits concerning detailed players’ actions tracking during a simulated exer...

The definition of innovative management as a tool anti-crisis is researched in this article. main tasks modern are constant monitoring and forecasting the external internal risks impact, which may negatively affect company's activities cause its crisis. basic factors enterprise crisis formulated conditions martial law. Also, key methods tools listed. Taking into account variety occurrence multi...

Social media have played integral roles in many crises around the world. Thailand faced severe floods between July 2011 and January 2012, when more than 13.6 million people were affected. This 7-month disaster provides a great opportunity to understand the use of social media for managing a crisis project before, during, and after its occurrence. However, current literature lacks a theoretical ...

Crisis and emergency management systems often require the use of large simulations to predict future developments of the simulated phenomena. For example, floods and forest fires are dynamic phenomena with devastating consequences. Simulations for these disasters require large amounts of information, including current and future weather data and the topography of the local terrain. In both case...