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Hi,

You know a business largely and prominently depends on assets and fund management.How to invest into assets and make future investments is a crucial question. Investment has two aspects- funding ongoing business inventory and market and the other one saving money to deal with some unpredictable crisis.

In my view, adopting business intelligence in promoting a business is one of the important factor. By business intelligence I mean, see the past success and behavioral pattern of the business and come out with some wise decisions and plans to invest further. However, there is always some scope of unpredictability that do not follow past trends. In order to manage investment both kinds of planning are to be kept into consideration.

I would like you to come up with some cutting edge ideas about how to make better investment in a business organization. The topic may look trivial but may evolve with some pioneering vision in this regard. Hope you come with positive remarks.

Joe Biden, you got to love him. I'm sure the late night TV comics do. The politician known for engaging his mouth before his brain had been kind of quiet during his boss's first 100 days in office, but that all ended when he went on the Today Show and told Matt Lauer what he thought people should do to avoid coming in contact with the Swine Flu virus.

He says - I'm sure very honestly - that he thinks people should avoid air travel since one person sneezes and that sneeze goes through the whole plane. Not sure the airline industry liked that. Then he added subways, buses, etc.

Later, the White House says that wasn't what he meant to say. Come on, I'm sure Joe said what he wanted to say, it was just that he didn't follow the WH script on what to say.

For the clip, go to:

http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/nation/ny-usbide0112718745apr30,0,1520071.story

The swine flu has gone from a serious problem in Mexico to a potential pandemic in just a few days.

From a crisis management standpoint, has the U.S. been taking the right moves? What about Mexico's reaction?

Considering all the preparations over the past few years in getting ready for the avian flu, did those preparations pay off? Are we ready?

For more background, go to:

http://www.radionetherlands.nl/currentaffairs/globaldevelopment/090427-mexico-swine-flu-mc

You can't help noticing the growing attention by the news media in counting calories, particularly the food being consumed at casual restaurants such as Fridays, etc. It seems the calorie police are no longer looking entirely at McDonald's and Wendy's. In fact, the Today Show compared a salad at Fridays that had more calories than a cheeseburger at Wendy's. The verdict: the Wendy cheeseburger was a better choice.

For restaurants, food companies and beverage companies, this is more than just a news story. It is a direct attack on the products they serve. You combine this with the stories on the growing (no pun intended) childhood obesity problem and this is nothing short of a crisis.

Restaurants and food and beverage companies have responded, but the war continues.

What have they done right?

What have they done wrong?

What else do they need to do?

Is this a battle they can win?

Hi all,

i am a new member of the site. i am a final year student in PR doing a dissertation on crisis management and how companies can effectively anticipate in the situation of a crisis.. for the purpose of my primary research i will be conductiong interviews to PR practitioners and academics really soon and it would be nice to get opinions on what about is good to ask...

it would be nice to hear some ideas!

thanks for your time.

It may sound like a stupid question, but 'crisis management' seems to be a term that has gotten many meanings in recent years.

For a school counselor 'crisis management' can mean school violence prevention or helping students through emotional trauma. For a psychologist 'crisis management' is understand human behavior and decision making in critical situations and helping people manage their way safely though adversity. For an emergency responder it can be planing for and putting out fires. For someone in public relations, it is largely talking to the news media after something bad has happened. And it has many other meanings.

Crisis Management is defined in great detail places like Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_management and else where online. Most seem to focus on the communications or emergency response side of it, but none seem to provide a comprehensive definition.

Myself, I have always assumed that crisis management was the art of managing crises, as oppose to it cousin disaster recovery, which deals with unmanageable crises. Ideally crisis management involves the steps anticipating potential crises, reviewing potential crises to determine if any can be eliminated or minimized, planing, training, and finally reacting to the crises. Often there is not time for all of these steps.

I would be interested to hear how others would define crisis management, and if there is a single, comprehensive definition for it.

Just wondered how the current global economic crisis has hurt - or helped - those involved in crisis management consulting and/or media training?

While it looks like AIG, Bank America, General Motors and the like could use some good crisis management advice, they certainly haven't knocked on my door...yet.

As for media training, it seems like lots of folks are postponing training until 2nd Quarter or later.

If you were the crisis management consultant or the head of their PR department, what would you be advising the US banks and other financial institutions to be doing (saying) these days?

So far, it seems they are hopelessly lost with a void of ideas of how to approach this financial crisis.

Steve Jobs sudden leave of absence from Apple Computer left shareholders and stock analysts worrying about what will happen to the company now.

When one person dominates an organization as much as Steve Jobs does, it can leave the company in a crisis if he leaves suddenly.

How important is leadership succession to crisis management?

Should companies be doing more to protect themselves in the event the leader of the company suddenly departs?

How prepared was Apple Computer?

This is a problem not only for companies like Apple, but for small companies too. How can they protect themselves?

For more on this, go to:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2009-01-14-steve-jobs_N.htm