DRI Drive
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
While COVID-19 laid bare the many interconnected global risks resilience professionals have to navigate, some unanticipated risks – including workplace and regulatory issues – are also emerging. Among the responses from a recent AuditBoard survey of professionals in North America: 90% consider cybersecurity and data protection top risks In part, that’s because the increase in […].
Disaster Zone
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
For the person in your life who has everything, but not this item.
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Recovery Diva
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
Disaster and Emergency Management Methods; Social Science Approaches in Application by Jason Rivera. Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York and London. ISBN-hardcover: 978 0 367 42398 8 ISBN-electronic: 978 0 367 82394 8; Pages: 381; on-line price $52.95 for paperback., $172.55 for hardback, $42.36 for etext USD. Key words: environmental governance, sustainability, resilience, climate risk, natural hazard, disaster risk reduction, building regulation.
Alternative Resiliency Services Corp
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Skippering a sailboat involves lots of inputs - weather, seas, crew, passengers, etc. etc. and requires keeping a constant eye on all of them. Situaitonal Awareness has business applications as well. Enjoy the video!
Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions
Join this brand new webinar with Tim Buteyn to learn how you can master the art of remote onboarding! By the end of this session, you'll understand how to: Craft a Tailored Onboarding Checklist 📝 Develop a comprehensive, customized checklist that ensures every new hire has a smooth transition into your company, no matter where they are in the world.
Disaster Zone Podcast
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Our maritime and aviation ports are critical to the commerce of the United States. Recently the importance of marine ports has been highlighted as challenges in the supply chain have been evident. In this podcast Ryan Calkins, Port Commissioner for the Port of Seattle shares information on the role of port commissioners , but also the scale of the operation in running both a maritime port and the major airport in the Pacific Northwest, SeaTac Airport.
Continuity Professional Pulse brings together the best content for business continuity professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
DRI Drive
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
An unusually intense “atmospheric river event” – fast-moving, moisture-laden air that brings intense rain – hit British Columbia and northern Washington state last week, resulting in record precipitation, flooding, and mudslides that have displaced thousands – and it’s about to get worse. This has been a dangerous year for Vancouver, BC, which only six months […].
Disaster Zone
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
Infrastructure week, month and year have finally arrived.
Recovery Diva
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
From the CRS: Recent Funding Increases for FEMA Hazard Mitigation Assistance. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recently announced that $3.46 billion in Hazard Mitigation Grant Program funding will be made available to states, territories, and tribes (STTs) with major disaster declarations for the COVID-19 pandemic. FEMA also announced increased funding for the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program for FY2021.
National Fire Protection Association
NOVEMBER 7, 2021
Over the weekend, tragedy unfolded at NRG Park in Houston, Texas when eight young concert goers, between the ages of 14 and 27, were killed when reported crowd surges occurred during the Astroworld festival which attracted an estimated 50,000 attendees. In addition to the loss of young lives, more than 300 attendees sought assistance at an onsite medical tent.
Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions
💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!
everbridge
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Across the globe, both public and private sectors are more concerned than ever about addressing climate change and its associated risks. “In the period 2000 to 2019, there were 7,348 major recorded disaster events claiming 1.23 million lives, affecting 4.2 billion people (many on more than one occasion) resulting in approximately US$2.97 trillion in global economic losses,” according to a report conducted by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).
The Rand Blog
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
During the pandemic, the rapid spread of information has been a powerful force for good. But it has also allowed misinformation and conspiracy theories to spread more virulently than ever before. The vast scale of the problem means scalable solutions like machine learning could be needed to rein in the bots, trolls, and conspiracy theories being spread by bad-faith actors.
DRI Drive
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
After months of soul searching, discussions, and after an extensive in-person site visit to Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas last week, DRI is pleased to announce that there will be a live DRI2022 conference. The conference will take place February 13-16, 2022. Planet Hollywood – and Las Vegas, itself – is taking sanitary and individual […]. The post DRI2022: An Important Update From Al Berman appeared first on DRI Drive.
Disaster Zone
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
Austria is one of the nations imposing restrictions
Speaker: Tim Buteyn
Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.
Recovery Diva
NOVEMBER 26, 2021
From the Congressional Research Service, this analysis of three federal statutes re emergency declarations.
CIO Governance
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
Compliance is a fact of life for just about every company — especially in highly regulated industries such as healthcare, financial services, and government. And while compliance is often under the mantel of legal, compliance, risk management, or other departments, IT is certain to be involved in any organization’s compliance efforts.
Pure Storage
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Edge computing is getting “edgier.” The technology, which allows compute and processing resources to be moved closer to where data is being analyzed, is moving farther and farther away from on-premises data centers—and it’s moving fast. At the moment, about 10% of enterprise data is created and processed outside centralized data centers or clouds, according to Gartner.
The Rand Blog
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
When Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte took office in 2016, he pledged to shift his country's foreign policy away from the United States in favor of China and Russia. His China-friendly policy is now effectively over, and he's doing his best to align the Philippines with the United States once more.
Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions
We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.
DRI Drive
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
With the continuing impacts of the pandemic, social unrest, geopolitical shakeups, cyber threats and other never-ending uncertainties, are organizations prepared to manage the risks and disruptions facing them, or are they in danger of being overwhelmed? A new report assesses the current risk landscape. The 2021 Global State of Enterprise Risk Oversight, published by North […].
Disaster Zone
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
It doesn’t come from reading a book.
Recovery Diva
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Climate Change, Slow-Onset Disasters, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
CIO Governance
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
Lean Six Sigma combines two methodologies, Lean and Six Sigma, to help accelerate specific processes so that organizations can solve problems faster and reduce waste, while creating more value for customers. It combines the waste-reducing mentality of the Lean methodology with the defect and variance reduction focus of Six Sigma. Together, Lean Six Sigma creates a powerful methodology for keeping businesses ahead of schedule and under budget, enabling organizations to create processes that suppo
Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion
In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha
Pure Storage
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
“Sharpen the saw!” Back in the day, when everyone was reading The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey, that was Habit #7. It came from a joke about a lumberjack who was using a dull saw to cut logs and couldn’t stop to sharpen it because he was too busy sawing. The advice was clear: Stop cutting and take time to sharpen your saw to be more effective.
The Rand Blog
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
Russia's military buildup along its border with Ukraine has been accompanied by dramatically tougher rhetoric in recent months. Russian President Vladimir Putin may believe Ukraine is at an inflection point and that it's time to up the ante. The risk of a major war seems real enough to justify a new U.S. approach.
LogisManager
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
Customer Value Story: How to Know What You Don’t Know. After disrupting business operations across the world, the pandemic has been a catalyst for innovation. Since the beginning, LogicManager has been working with our clients to help them pivot and prepare to face new challenges, but also transform and streamline their processes in order to emerge even stronger on the other side.
Disaster Zone
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
Everyone can learn something from this event.
National Fire Protection Association
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
Standpipe systems consist of piping and hose connections installed throughout a building to provide reliable water for the manual suppression of a fire by either the fire department or trained personnel. NFPA 14, Standard for the Installation of Standpipe and Hose Systems, Chapter 6, outlines design and installation requirements for standpipe and hose systems.
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