All activities of an organization involve risks that should be managed. Business travel is a key component and high risk factor of those corporate activities. The risk management process aids decision making by taking account of uncertainty and the possibility of future events or circumstances (intended or unintended) and their effects on business travel objectives.

Failure to employ the best practices available could expose companies to severe consequences legally, financially and to their reputation. Ratings agencies are beginning to evaluate companies risk management performance on behalf of investors. Companies “Duty of Care” has become enshrined in punitive legislation and legal precedent.

Cook Systems International's Travel Risk Management Professionals can help you develop logical and systematic methods for:

• Planning, designing, and communicating Travel Risk Management Policies and Systems
  
• Establishing the context for identifying, analyzing, evaluating, and treating the risk
  associated with general business travel, executive travel and critical personnel exposure
  
• Deploying technologies and systems to communicate, promote, and enforce travel
  policies and best practices at the planning and booking stages
  
• Proactively monitoring, tracking and communicating with travelers, risks, threats,
  disasters and triggering events that may impact the traveler’s safety, schedule, or
  business objective
  
• Crisis Resource Planning, Crisis Management and Pandemic Safety
  
• Executive Succession Planning and single catastrophic event avoidance

ISO 31000 Risk Management Standard
ISO 31000 is a family of standards relating to risk management codified by the International Organization for Standardization. The purpose of ISO 31000 is to provide principles and generic guidelines on risk management. ISO 31000 seeks to provide a universally recognized paradigm for practitioners and companies employing risk management processes to replace the myriad of existing standards, methodologies and paradigms that differed between industries, subject matters and regions.

Cook Systems International Travel Risk Management
Cook Systems International’s Travel Risk Management Practice employs ISO 31000 International Standards for Risk Management. We help you identify how travel safety and objectives may be affected, and analyze the risk in term of consequences and their probabilities before deciding on whether further treatment is required. Risks include security risks, disaster risks, economic risks, political risks, health risks, terror risks, opportunity risks, and business objective risks.

It’s not enough just to know who is stranded or in trouble.

At Cook Systems International we believe a successful Travel Risk Management Program must in the end have the capability to make things better for the business travelers involved. In recent years, we have developed strong relationships with our technology partner. We can help you reduce the inconvenience of travel plan interruptions by providing the subject matter experts and associated resources to work with technologies to track, communicate, and even dynamically respond and reroute travelers before available resources become choked and overloaded.

Cook Systems International helps you help your travelers. We can help you develop response scenarios and pre catalog various travel industry, government and third party resources available to come to the aid of your traveler in need. Cook Systems International can help you pre establish relationships with the U.S. State Department Crisis Management Center and coordinate International Consular resources so that in a crisis, you will know what resources there are and how to bring them to bear.