Corpen Group is a leading consultancy specializing in crisis & risk communications, issues & reputation management, media management & training, and corporate communications. Corpen Group is extremely proud to announce we have aligned our services with Global Public Affairs, Canada's leading public affairs and government relations consultancy agency. The union of Corpen Group and Global brings a new suite of value-added services to our clients, specifically in issues management. Like Corpen Group, Global is a strategically oriented consultancy providing its Canadian and international clients with strategic research and counsel, government advocacy and issues management. Learn more about Global Public Affairs here.

Pride commeth before the communications crisis at RiM

20.10.2011

By Laurie Griffin How early communications practices at RiM set the tone for their crisis response efforts. RiM just can’t seem to catch a break. Just as the company worked out a compensation plan ($100 worth of free apps) for consumers impacted by the Blackberry outages that swept across several continents last week, Reuters has now [...]

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5 common missing elements in crisis communications plans

26.08.2011

By: Leanne Laverick It’s becoming common practice for most organizations to have a crisis communications plan but it’s also common to see crisis communications plans collect dust on the shelf, never to be revisited unless a crisis breaks out. This is a refresher of some of the most common elements we see missing from crisis [...]

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Cyber Security, the Communications Expectations and Reputational Consequences

09.08.2011

By: Matthew John With cyber-crime and hacktivism on the rise and with high-profile targets such as Sony and Honda who have experienced numerous, humiliating security breaches, corporations are quickly learning the reputational risks of lax cyber-security and the consequences of fumbling their communications response.    Personal privacy is increasingly becoming a concern for internet users [...]

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