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Foresight

Emergency Planning

The cascade is a result of the progression of a shock through different kinds of vulnerability. It shows up failure to avoid provocation between states, failure to predict and mitigate conflict, failure to make sufficient progress in the transition away from dependency on fossil fuels, and failure to resolve disputes in the global arena.

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Cities, Cultural Heritage and the Culture of Responding to Floods

Emergency Planning

Powerful floods struck Puerto Lumbreras again in 2012. Each new disaster reveals the shortcomings of hazard mitigation and disaster preparedness. Although it is axiomatic that prevention is better than emergency response, however much we spend on mitigating disaster, we can never afford to spend less on responding to it.

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Supply Chain Continuity: Lessons Learned from the ISG Insolvency

Plan B Consulting

The insolvency of ISG serves as a stark reminder of the vulnerabilities inherent in supply chain management, especially in sectors like construction, where margins are thin, and the failure of a single supplier can have far-reaching consequences, this is a lesson we see repeated again and again.

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Expansion of pre-disaster mitigation funding such as through the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, and new funding for infrastructure resilience embedded in the bi-partisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act are also steps in the right direction. And that is just the federal programs.

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IRM, ERM, and GRC: Is There a Difference?

Reciprocity

2007-2012): Audit management, enterprise, and operational risk management, compliance beyond financial controls, and more. You’ll think ahead, anticipating new risks down the road and your organization’s risk response: accept, avoid, transfer, mitigate. Rasmussen sees the GRC development timeline as follows: GRC 1.0

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You Can’t Win!

Plan B Consulting

BP are claiming that the compensation package is being abused, and that they may have to put aside more than the £5.2bn agreed in 2012. I suggest that these issues are discussed internally or even exercised, so that the organisation can think through where they are vulnerable, and how they should respond before an event occurs.

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You Can’t Win!

Plan B Consulting

BP are claiming that the compensation package is being abused, and that they may have to put aside more than the £5.2bn agreed in 2012. I suggest that these issues are discussed internally or even exercised, so that the organisation can think through where they are vulnerable, and how they should respond before an event occurs.