The Crisis Management Organizer is an application for Windows CE devices, such as handhelds and pocket pcs, and a companion MS Access database for desktop and/or laptop computers. These applications are designed to be a tool to help crisis management professionals keep track of the massive amount of important information that is required to effectively deal with a crisis situation as well as to manage and document the crisis incident as it occurs.

The Crisis Management Organizer was developed for use by those individuals responsible for handling critical incidents including, for example, business human resource managers, school principals, hospital crisis team members, and/or government civil emergency management officials.

The Crisis Management Organizer is made up of six modules:

• the Human Resource Manager,
• the Crisis Impact Manager,
• the Critical Incident Log,
• the Task Manager,
• Action Guides, and
• Evacuation Routes.

The first three tables are reproduced in the companion MS Access application.  

 

Thoughtful businesses, schools, hospitals, governmental entities, and first responder organizations, such as police and fire departments, have, in place, crisis management and response action plans. As a part of these plans these organizations have assigned various teams of employees who, in an emergency situation, are tasked to perform various actions.

 

Depending upon the nature of the critical incident, hopefully, your organization has developed task checklists, calling tree lists, designated evacuation routes, emergency equipment stockpiles, building blueprints, etc. The Crisis Management Organizer is designed to store, systematize, and rapidly make available this mass of information to key decision making personnel during an emergency situation.

 

However, it is designed to do much more. A key function of crisis team members is to make decisions, to implement decisions, to monitor the impact of their decisions over time, and to document what occurs. If there are casualties, these impacted individuals need to be documented, accounted for, and next of kin notified. The Crisis Management Organizer helps the professional perform these crucial responsibilities in an easy and simple way.

 

When an emergency occurs experienced crisis management teams will set up a command center. Whether the command center is a school principal's office, a business' parking garage, or a hospital's conference room, senior members of the organization's crisis team will settle in to direct and manage the situation. In that command center, there will be either a desktop or laptop computer. It is on this centrally located computer that the companion MS Access application is placed and which the various team members' hand-helds are synchronized as needed.

 

When you purchase the Crisis Management Organizer software package you are provided either the P/PC or H/PC version, depending upon the type of Windows CE device your organization uses, the companion Access database, a license for unlimited reproduction of the software solely, however, for use within your organization, and eleven action guides used by CMC, Inc. consultants and clients.

 

The titles of these action guides are:

• Assault (Assailant has left the premises)
• Bomb Threat
• Bomb Threat Other Than Telephonic
• Checklist for Communicating with Media
• Checklist for Post Crisis Follow-Up
• Confidential Crisis Incident Report
• Critical Incident Fact Sheet
• Disaster Preventing Dismissal (e.g., sniper)(See also, Hostage Armed/Dangerous Intruder Situations)
• Evacuation Procedures
• Hostage-Taker On Premises and/or Armed/Dangerous Intruder Situations
• Crisis Management "ToolBox"

The price for the Crisis Management Organizer software package, version 2, is $39.

 

To purchase the Crisis Management Organizer software for Pocket PCs.

To purchase the Crisis Management Organizer software for Handheld PCs.

 

To view/download the Crisis Management Organizer manual, which details installation and system requirements, click here.

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NOTE: Version 2 to be  published soon. Older versions have been discontinued.