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Business, Interrupted: Post-Pandemic Thinking Like a Risk Manager

Castellan

The Pandemic Pivot. As this team focuses on preparing for and responding to disruptions, it’s becoming clearer after the past year how much impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on planning and response, leading to, in some cases, a pivot in program focus. That started as early as January 2020. Get The Pandemic Reopening Toolkit.

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Ep. 07: Spotlight on Business Continuity Programs in Healthcare | James Mitchell

The Failover Plan Podcast

The last few months he has been heavily involved with a historic pandemic response at Texas Children’s which involved a 140+ day activation of their incident command system. 26:28min- The role of his BC program in non-traditional activities like COVID. Key Points: 0:28min- James’ background. 22:47min- Is he lucky?

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Emergency Planning

Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009.

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More on the Covid-19 Academic Gold Rush

Emergency Planning

Between 1st January and 3rd April 2020, 6,659 papers on Covid-19 were published. are relevant and have robust methodologies is one of the key challenges emerging from the scientific response to Covid-19" (Baker 2020). If we are asked to do more, it must be at the expense of some other activity. References Baker, Simon, 2020.

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Making Environmental Stewardship a Priority for Business

BMC

Every April, we celebrate Earth Day, and this year, BMC is taking it a step further with a whole month of activities for our inaugural Climate Action Month. During the pandemic, PPE began showing up in our oceans and threatening our wildlife. And we’re not alone. How much money? How about $120 trillion? We’re so glad you asked!

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Continuity Christmas Cleanup

Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

Organizations are putting a bookmark to 2019 and preparing for 2020. ​Here are two high-value low-investment end-of-year activities to keep your Business Continuity programs on track and ready to face the unexpected in 2020! ​It’s that time of year again. Closing the books.

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PagerDuty Dutonians raise $26,000 in Step Challenge for Humanity Matters by AJ Dullard

PagerDuty

The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us some important lessons. With stay-at-home orders placed on many of these communities throughout 2020 and 2021, young people were experiencing heightened isolation and in need of extra support and assistance. . The power of community, the importance of connection and the joy in giving back.