How Noggin’s Crisis Management Software Prepares Your Organization for Disruption

Introduction

From supply-chain snarls to severe-weather events to cyber attacks, businesses today face a litany of critical challenges to their organizational resilience. Adapting to these challenges to come out ahead, however, requires prudent investment in the appropriate digital tools.

That’s where crisis management software comes in.

But not all crisis management solutions are fit for purpose.

Indeed, the most mature crisis management teams have cottoned on to this fact, procuring digital technology to significantly transform their resilience and preparedness efforts, from training and simulation to response and recovery.

To drive ongoing improvements, these programs have been seeking out innovations that enable their organizations to anticipate, monitor, and respond to both natural and man-made risks with heightened precision and swiftness.

For that reason, they’ve been turning to Noggin. So, what exactly is the Noggin difference when it comes to preparing companies for any type of disruption? Read on to find out.

What’s the Noggin Difference?

For starters, Noggin empowers organizations to plan, coordinate, and streamline their response efforts to minimize the negative consequences of an incident, crisis, or emergency and return operations to normal as quickly as possible.

Key to these product benefits are software features such as integrated threat intelligence, response plan activation, team collaboration, post crisis reviews, and more.

What You Get With Noggin’s Crisis Management Software

Here are the other Noggin crisis management software capabilities your organization needs to prepare for disruption:

Improve resilience with centralized response planning

Noggin enables organizations to effectively prepare for disruption by managing all incident, crisis, and business continuity plans in a centralized location. This facilitates standardization of response plan templates, protocols, and guidelines, ensuring easy access, enhanced coordination, and reduced risk of critical information being missed.

Effectively manage events with situational awareness

Noggin equips organizations with situational awareness and threat intelligence to quickly detect emerging threats. With integrated business continuity data organizations can easily identify potentially impacted people or assets so they can swiftly adapt to evolving events, communicate with stakeholders, and escalate any event.

Facilitate crucial collaboration and coordination

Noggin facilitates crucial collaboration and coordination during incident and crisis response through clear communication channels, centralized information sharing, clearly defined roles and responsibilities, efficient task allocation and tracking, streamlined decision making and logging, and post incident analysis and learning.

Streamline crisis and incident response with automation

Noggin’s integrated resilience workspace streamlines essential incident and crisis workflows, allowing organizations to rapidly and efficiently respond to any disruption that may arise, through quick activation of pre-defined response plans and simultaneously notifying crisis response teams to ensure effective coordination.

Key Noggin Crisis Management Software Features

There’s never enough time when a disruption happens.

That’s why Noggin gives response teams and decision makers the digital tools to know what’s happening, collaborate quickly and effectively, make better decisions, and enact the right plans to take action when it counts most.

Within Noggin, you can report and manage all crises, incidents, and issues in a singly flexible platform.

Here are the Noggin crisis management software features that help:

Incident management

Noggin’s integrated platform enables you to report and manage all incidents and crises. Use Noggin to activate teams, assign response tasks, record decisions, facts, assumptions, and share updates with key stakeholders.

Situational awareness

Improve situational awareness with customizable dashboards that gather data using scrolling banners, live maps, and feeds to consolidate information from various sources, including news, weather, social media, traffic, and natural disaster streams.

Team activation and collaboration

Swiftly notify response teams and keep communication lines open. Team members can easily join dedicated chat groups to discuss incidents while the Noggin platform fosters collaboration, allowing those team members to share important details, assess the impact of the event, and collectively devise effective response strategies.

Crisis communications

With built-in crisis communication and collaboration tools like chat, email, SMS, voice, and app push messages, Noggin makes it easy to work in real-time with your team, better coordinate your response, and keep everyone informed.

Response plans and checklists

Generate crisis and incident response action plans using our comprehensive library of best practices. Customize pre-existing strategies to align with your organization’s requirements or develop your own unique plans to effectively address your organization’s specific needs.

Exercise management

Don’t wait for a real-world crisis to test your organization’s readiness. With Noggin’s exercise management solution, you can be confident that teams are prepared to handle any situation that comes their way.

Post incident reviews

Conduct meaningful after-action reviews, improvement activities, and post-incident reviews to capture the key takeaways from any incident or exercise. Learn from experience and boost your organizational resilience.

Analytics and reporting

Analyze trends and create dashboards to visualize metrics important to your organization. Create custom reports as PDF or Word documents and share with stakeholders to improve data visibility, accountability, and lessons learned.

Finally, disruption is a matter of when not if. That’s why companies are increasingly turning toward Noggin to satisfy their crisis management and critical event management needs.

But don’t just take our word for it. Have a look at Noggin’s award-winning software for yourself. Request a demo today, and a Solutions Expert will walk you through the platform.