Crisis Management
preparation, response, and recovery.
Crisis preparation and response support for businesses operating in the Middle East and Africa — covering operational disruptions, regulatory crises, reputational incidents, and geopolitical risk scenarios. Planning before a crisis, and decisive advisory during one.
Dubai · Abu Dhabi · Tokyo
What the crisis management service covers.
Development of a business continuity plan tailored to the MEA operating environment — covering operational disruptions, supply chain failures, key person risk, and natural disasters.
Structured identification and prioritisation of crisis scenarios relevant to your business — including regulatory enforcement, fraud incidents, reputational crises, and geopolitical events.
Development of crisis response playbooks — covering escalation procedures, communication protocols, authority liaison, and decision-making under uncertainty.
Response advisory for regulatory enforcement actions, inspection visits, and compliance crises — including government authority liaison and legal coordination.
Structured advisory for reputational incidents — covering internal communication, media management, and stakeholder response in the UAE/KSA context.
Post-incident review to identify control failures, improve response protocols, and prevent recurrence — delivered as a structured lessons-learned report.
How an engagement works.
Identify the most significant crisis scenarios relevant to your business in the MEA context — based on sector, operational profile, and regulatory environment.
Develop business continuity plans and crisis response playbooks for the agreed scenarios — structured for practical use under pressure.
Test response protocols through structured tabletop exercises with relevant management team members.
For active crises, provide real-time advisory support — including government authority liaison, legal coordination, and stakeholder communication.
Conduct a structured review following resolution — documenting lessons, identifying control improvements, and updating protocols.
Markets we cover.
How we differ.
- BCP templates applied without UAE/KSA regulatory and operational context
- Crisis scenarios not calibrated to MEA-specific risks (regulatory, geopolitical)
- No government authority liaison capability in active crises
- Reputational crisis advisory without local media or stakeholder context
- Post-crisis review not standard — no learning loop built in
- BCP developed with direct knowledge of UAE/KSA operational and regulatory environment
- Crisis scenarios drawn from real incidents across our 200+ client portfolio
- Government authority liaison available in active crisis situations
- Reputational advisory with awareness of UAE/KSA stakeholder and media dynamics
- Post-crisis review structured to prevent recurrence, not just document it
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BCP, crisis scenarios, response protocols — built for the Middle East and Africa. The initial consultation is free of charge.
