Crisis Management: Utilizing Technology to Achieve Effective Communications and Decision-Making

Higher education institutions face multifaceted challenges when it comes to ensuring the safety and security of their campuses, work, and data environments. Whether these environments are physical or virtual, safeguarding them involves addressing various layers of potential threats. Finding a way to properly plan for all these potential threats at the different layers of the university environment can at times be viewed as overwhelming. How does an organization plan for this? More importantly, what resources are needed to access a multilayered safe working and academic environment? To achieve stakeholder support for cutting-edge technologies, it is essential to encourage interactions between all areas of an organization and its IT stakeholders to establish common objectives and prioritize investments that contribute to a university’s safeguarding of its community and its data. This presentation will delve into how strategic investments and unified approaches in risk management and emergency notification technologies can enhance both the safety and productivity of the organization.