Highway to Safety
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Black Elephant
Empowering people to navigate complexity
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Years of experience in medical safety, aviation and management expertise.
We make organisations and teams resilient, adaptable and able to learn.We make organisations and teams resilient, adaptable and able to learn.
The elephant in the room
The term “Black Elephant” describes obvious, well-known issues or risks that are not consistently addressed or dealt with.
Who are we?
About Black Elephant
Black Elephant is the first consultancy specialising in organisational resilience for critical infrastructure that unites both the legal and the human aspects of resilience.
More about usWhy Black Elephant?
We make your Black Elephant visible
A “Black Elephant” is a cross between a “black swan” (an improbable, unexpected event with enormous impact) and the “elephant in the room” (a problem that is visible to everyone but that nobody wants to address).
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Developing Organisations
Strengthening organisational resilience and the ability to act.
Safeguarding Processes
Mastering regulatory requirements.
Strengthening Competencies
The right attitude and mindset are key.
Patient Safety
Consulting and training for safe hospitals and medical facilities.
What is the problem?
The paradigm shift in corporate governance renders conventional management models obsolete
Concept
Our focus is on holistic consulting to strengthen organisational resilience. We combine structural solutions with building the necessary competencies through training and embedding them in everyday work.
Mission
We make organisations and their teams stronger, more flexible and more adaptable than they are today.
Expertise
With more than 25 years of experience in “health care safety” in the DACH region, we offer you our holistic approach as a consulting and training organisation, so that you can withstand today’s geopolitical and social challenges.
Pilots of Complexity
Leadership training in the flight simulator
Learn how information, communication and leadership work in the cockpit, and what you can transfer to your own organisation.
- Designed for top leadership teams
- Direct feedback on behaviour
- Makes Black Elephants visible
Become a pilot of complexity
Routine in crises
We strengthen your resilience and ability to act, and that of your teams.
Leading effectively
To this end, we train you as part of a complex organisation facing complex situations.
We enable experiences
This is how we increase your and your teams’ decision-making and problem-solving skills under pressure.
A strong partner that inspires!
“Thanks to our cooperation with Black Elephant, we are successfully introducing innovative solutions and winning our staff’s acceptance (often even enthusiasm) for them. We would never have managed that through work instructions alone.”
Dr. Christoph ScheuManaging Director, MBASupport, orientation and confidence
“Black Elephant was instrumental in helping us increase acceptance of and a positive attitude towards checklists (...) This gave rise to a new safety culture within the interdisciplinary and interprofessional clinical team.”
Andrea GündhörHospital business economist, Commercial Director, Klinikum FreistadtLatest posts
Literature & Articles
Here you will find selected literature and articles on our topics:
Compliance versus Commitment
Compliance, i.e. adherence to rules, is in most cases …
Work as Imagined versus Work as Done
Requirements that appear logical and safe from an organisational …
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Frequently asked questions
FAQ
The KRITIS umbrella act (KRITIS-Dachgesetz) strengthens the security and resilience of critical infrastructure in Germany and implements the EU directive on the resilience of critical entities (CER).
The act applies in particular to the following areas:
- Energy
- Transport and traffic
- Banking and insurance
- Health
- Drinking water and waste water
- Digital infrastructure (IT and telecommunications)
- Space
- Public administration
- Food and nutrition
- Waste management
Breaches of the new resilience and reporting obligations can lead to considerable sanctions. For the KRITIS umbrella act, the legislator provides for fines of up to EUR 500,000. Penalties apply in particular to failing to implement prescribed protective measures, missing registrations with the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK) and insufficient evidence of your resilience. In addition, the personal liability of management is coming into focus to ensure compliance with the legal standards.
By building a structured crisis management system with clear roles, processes and communication channels. Our experts support you with design, implementation and training.
- NIS-2 / cybersecurity management
- Risk & resilience analyses
- Emergency and recovery planning