To some degree, Nissan can point to good luck. The flooding had different impact in various parts of the country and Nissan didn’t get the worst of it. But working with suppliers, effective pre-crisis planning also seems to have been a key. Once again, we hear executives gathered swiftly when the effects of the flooding were known. "Everyone co-operated to get information out globally, cross-region. Smooth information flow enabled everyone to work with the same information to seek solutions and prevented wasteful overlap,” said Nissan's Yokohama-based spokesman Chris Keeffe.