The Tools of Crisis Detection

Y. C. K. Chen

ABSTRACT

  Crisis Detection (RD) is an early warning mechanism. Due to the daily tedious affairs, the staffs can easily ignore lots or sign of crisis. More often, even the crisis has been detected, the staffs cannot have appropriate reaction to solve the crisis at the first beginning.

  The main function of crisis detection for an organization is to detect all the crises, and, after all, a well trained crisis manager and instructor should familiar with all those tools to avoid or reduce the risk of undetectable or careless ignored crisis, as a result, to protect organization from further damage, either in properties or organizational image. Therefore, crisis detection is an important subject which should be introduced into the education and training of senior managers, allowing them to have an understanding of the overall picture of crisis management. Crisis detection can always started by organization detection, then with the detection steps, there are many detecting tools can be used for each step. The author analysis the strength and weakness of those tools to help the crisis detection researcher can easily detect all the crises.

  To combine the power and flexibility of all the detection tools make a great first step of crisis management. The crisis management mechanism can only effectively function with a well and complete crisis detection. This paper can be a guide of crisis detection. For further, one should always notice new detecting technology and tool for making crisis detection fast, correct and complete.

KEYWORDS: Crisis Management; Crisis Detection; Weakness Analysis

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