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Annie Searle & Associates -- ASA Risk Consultants -- helps companies better manage the types of risks that spring from the four operational pillars of any organization --  people, processes, systems and external events. Our firm partners with yours to:

  • Streamline crisis management plans
  • Identify emerging threats
  • Create roadmaps to close gaps
  • Protect your brand
  • Avoid operational losses

Use ASA consulting services to drive improvements in your policies, programs and business practices. Our toolset includes executive briefings, risk assessments and roadmaps, strategic planning, scenario design and testing, and improved plans for crisis and emergency management, technology resiliency, corporate and information security.

Engage the ASA Institute for Risk and Innovation to tap into ASA research and publications, workshops, retreats and customized projects.

We're here to help you solve the thorny, high risk challenges so that your firm can take well thought out risks that align with your business strategy -- and support corporate innovation, growth and profitability.

Annie's Take

Daily commentary on risk news that matters.

6/18/2013
More Data on Privacy, but Picture Is No Clearer
6/17/2013
Every Wall Is A Door
6/16/2013
Metadata reveals the secrets of social position, company hierarchy, terrorist cells

ASA News

If you're tracking the H7N9 strain of bird virus in Asia, or the SARS-like coronavirus that has presented itself in Saudi Arabia and now France, you may wish to check out my 2009 NBC interview (below) on reasonable precautions everyone can take when fast-spreading virus affects workforces. Though it was a different strain, the advice still applies.