Giuliani teams with Aon on crisis management. (Loss/Risk Management Notes: Property/Casualty).Aon Corp. has formed a strategic alliance with former New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's management consulting Noun 1. management consulting - a service industry that provides advice to those in charge of running a business service industry - an industry that provides services rather than tangible objects firm to provide crisis-management services to major corporations. Giuliani Group and Aon Corp. will provide an array of services including: * planning for preservation of corporate reputation and shareholder value; * crisis management solutions and risk-reduction planning; * continuity planning for business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets ; * pre-incident crisis communications consulting; * consulting on design and creation of crisis response centers; * threat assessments and security consulting; and * litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. settlements and buyouts. Under the two-year agreement, Giuliani Group will provide Aon with short and long-term crisis management solutions. It will also help develop and implement comprehensive crisis operations protocols and advice on emergency communications procedures, the group said. The firm also includes former New York City Police Commissioner The New York City Police Commissioner is the head of the New York City Police Department, appointed by the Mayor of New York City. Governor Theodore Roosevelt, in one of his final acts before becoming Vice President of the United States in March 1901, signed legislation replacing Bernard Kerik and former Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen Thomas Von Essen was appointed the 30th Fire Commissioner of the City of New York by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani on April 15, 1996 and served in that position until the end of the Giuliani Administration on December 31, 2001, nearly four months after the September 11, 2001 attacks. . Aon said that in 1997, it formed a special risks counter-terrorism team with both military and insurance experience to provide risk transfer and risk-management solutions for clients who might be exposed to terrorism. In 1998, Aon began developing solutions in case of terrorist use of chemical, biological and radiological agents, Aon said. Aon founded its crisis-management practice in 1999, offering crisis management, communications and business-continuity planning, the company said. The practice involves not only terrorism issues, but any potential crisis that could affect corporate operations, the company said. |
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