Crisis Management & Business Continuity / MASY1-GC 3615-200

Assignment 1

Focus Organization Profile: One-page overview - Due prior to Class #2

Background

The primary objective of this course is to apply the advanced concepts of crisis management to the issues, opportunities and decisions facing a manager when her organization is facing an emergency or crisis.

Assignment Description

For this assignment, you will paint a somewhat detailed picture of an organization that you are choosing to be involved with in the event of an emergency or disaster (hereafter, the focus organization) as follows:

• The focus organization can be formal or informal, real or imaginary. Examples of focus organizations include private, non-profit, public, faith-based or voluntary agencies or companies.

• Prepare and submit an executive brief (no more than one page) that lists the key characteristics of your focus organization

• You must have, or develop, an in depth knowledge of your focus organization and include an chart that depicts the key departments or mission areas and their relationship to each other and to the executive

• A template focus organization profile is attached and we will discuss an example in class.

  NYU Langone Health

Focus Organization Profile

  Element

   Description

 Name Brief description Origination Date Chief Executive Mission

Number of employees Headquarters address

NYU Langone Health

Academic medical center

1841

Robert I Grossman MD

Patient care, research and education

42,000

550 First Avenue, New York NY 10016

           Annual revenue/ expenditures

    $10.2 billion revenue (2021)

      Number and type of facilities

   6 acute care hospitals, 400 doctor offices/ ambulatory care sites, 350 research laboratories, 2 major call centers, 2 schools of medicine

   Location and area of operations

  5 boroughs of New York City, Nassau and Suffolk Counties (Long Island), Florida and Las Vegas

   Key departments

  Hospitals, Research, Schools of Medicine, Faculty Group Practice, Facilities Management, Real Estate, Safety and Security, IT, Supply Chain Management, Marketing & Communications, Human Resources, Administration & Finance

 Org chart

[see below]