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Why Crisis Management Planning Should Be On Your To-Do List

Bernstein Crisis Management

Why Crisis Management Planning Should Be On Your To-Do List In a competitive market regularly impacted by events which disrupt the ability to operate, a volatile social climate, and rapidly shifting consumer expectations, what separates businesses that thrive and those that struggle is often their preparedness for crises.

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The Importance of Business Continuity Whitepaper

Erwood Group

The Importance of Business Continuity is an extensive Whitepaper first written in 2009 by our CEO & Principle Managing Consultant – Keith Erwood. It is newly updated with fresh content, new stats and important new information. The Importance of Business Continuity is a great resource. Importance of Business Continuity open.

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

Several arguments can be marshalled against the idea of community resilience:- The concept of 'community' has no inherent geographical scale. With regard to the last of these points, it is worth considering the criticisms of the concept of social capital, which is often used in conjunction with community-based DRR (Haynes 2009, Inaba 2013).

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Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of March 15: Updates from VergeIO, Pure Storage, AtData, and More

Solutions Review

“We have the privilege of hosting the hardest working and most dedicated professionals in the resilience community,” said Chloe Demrovsky , DRI President and CEO. Pure Storage has been at the forefront of revolutionizing enterprise data storage since its inception in 2009. ” Read on for more. Read on for more.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

The former has been in widespread use since about 1993, and the latter since around 2009. For example, if people are poor and their lives are generally precarious, they cannot be made resilient against disasters such as floods and earthquakes unless the problem of vulnerability to life's exigencies in general is reduced. Bird et al.