The terrible twins

Abstract

I have seen emergency management and business continuity develop over the past 20 years. Business continuity prominently was created in the information technology (IT) world as disaster recovery has slowly morphed to the emergency management field as a whole. When a business disruptive event occurred, I often heard the term “crisis management team.” Though, having experience in emergency response/management, I was used to the term “incident management team.” I have always seen a crisis management team as the same as an incident management team as they essentially did the same function; that being: deal with the event in a coordinated manner, utilizing variants of the principles command, control, coordination, and communication.