Report 1: Emergency Planning

Overview

Following the team’s descriptive analysis, you will now work independently to perform a prescriptive analysis. Your goal is to move beyond describing the current state and instead evaluate performance, identify gaps, and prescribe specific improvements.

Objectives

By completing this analysis, you will demonstrate the ability to:

• Evaluate the robustness of a risk management framework using a real-world “stress test.”
• Synthesize primary research data into a formal executive communication.
• Formulate prescriptive recommendations that balance organizational constraints with best practices in emergency preparedness.

Instructions

Step 1: The Pandemic Stress Test

Using the novel coronavirus pandemic as a case study, evaluate the flexibility of the organization’s risk management strategy.

• Retrospective Analysis: Did the organization have a pandemic response plan prior to March 2020? If so, was it sufficient? If not, how did they develop one, and has it functioned adequately since?
• Flexibility & Omissions: Based on the data gathered by your team in Part 1, does the overall emergency framework seem flexible enough to handle unexpected, high-impact situations? Identify any clear omissions.
• Theoretical Stress-Testing: How would the current plan hold up against other non-typical emergencies, such as large-scale civil unrest or localized environmental disasters?

Step 2: Final Deliverable (Business Report)

Prepare a report (2-3 pages) to an organizational leader in the form of a standard business report. This memo must extend your descriptive research into a set of prescriptive recommendations.

This is an individual assignment. While you may use the data collected by your team, the analysis and the final memo must be your own original work.