The Rand Blog

AUGUST 16, 2023

Since 2011, Congress has routinely struggled to pass a budget on time. Instead, Congress leverages continuing resolutions to fund the government and prevent shutdowns. This flawed process that relies on temporary fixes is hampering Pentagon planning and could pose long-term risks to U.S. military readiness and competitiveness.

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Citrix

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

BYOD has been around for a long time in practice, although the acronym was not popularized until 2011 , when Citrix started to highlight the benefits. The fundamental desire for flexibility to work from anywhere on any device was true … The post BYOD is still a thing, now more than ever! first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Architecture Security 72

National Fire Protection Association

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Exposure to electricity has been associated with 1,653 fatalities since 2011, according to the BLS. The following chart shows the total fatalities associated with each type as well as the voltage associated with those fatalities since 2011.

All-Hazards 84

All-Hazards Hazard Evaluation Manufacturing 84

Crisis Response Journal

JULY 19, 2017

Robert McAlister, CRJ Editorial Panel Member, is in Oslo to attend the Sixth Anniversary of the July 22, 2011 Norway attack by Anders Behring Breivik. By Robert McAlister

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Bernstein Crisis Management

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Example 1: The Tweet Misstep In 2011, an employee at the Red Cross accidentally tweeted a personal message from the organization’s official account, referencing a specific beer brand. It might be a social media mishap, an abrupt product recall, or a global event affecting operations.

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BCM Crisis Management Response Plan Strategic 100

Crisis Response Journal

JULY 20, 2017

CRJ Editorial Panel Member Robert McAlister is in Oslo for the sixth Anniversary of the July 22, 2011 attack by far right extremist Anders Breivik. In this second blog Robert retraces the steps of Breivik, his victims, survivors and the response actions o By Robert McAlister

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Erwood Group

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Bad enough that a Forrester survey conducted in 2011 discovered that while 55 percent of respondents claim their companies have calculated the cost of downtime, only 18 percent knew what that figure was. Worse yet is the potential for extended losses or delays in revenue. How bad is the problem?

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Impact Analysis Insurance Insurance 105

Crisis Response Journal

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The terrorist attacks in Norway in 2011 were the most devastating attacks in Scandinavia after the Second World War. The events involved a car bomb in Oslo and an armed gunman storming a summer camp, killing 77 people, mostly of them young people.

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Emergency Planning

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In 2011 there was a 20.5-metre A piece of the Sanriku coast at Minamisanriku, NE Japan. metre tsunami here. Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE AR-SA In 1966 the eminent Californian risk analyst Chauncey Starr published a seminal paper in Science Magazine in which he stated that "a thing is safe if its risks are judged to be acceptable."

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Travel Transportation Alert Publishing 147

Emergency Planning

APRIL 24, 2022

As an example, consider the impact of the Fukushima Dai’ichi nuclear release in Japan in 2011 on nuclear energy policy in other countries (Wittneben 2012,Kim et al. Geopolitics, globalised production, global competition for natural resources and the world-wide effects of climate change all have local impacts and implications.

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Natural Hazard All-Hazards Entertainment Transportation 199

Emergency Planning

MARCH 16, 2021

The tsunami museum at Rikusentakata, seen from atop the coastal tsunami barrier across the land that was devastated by the waves in March 2011 Thursday 11 th March 2021 was the tenth anniversary of the Japanese triple disaster: earthquake, tsunami and radiation release. A tsunami is usually nothing like the breakers that surfers ride.

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Authorization Education Government Activation 130

Zerto

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

When Zerto came out of stealth mode in 2011, we immediately made a splash by winning VMworld’s Best of Show award and earning some great early customers—including banks, colleges, and retailers that are still partnering with us a dozen years later.

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Malware Alert Backup Retail 72

Pure Storage

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Pure Storage has been 100% partner focused since our first FlashArray ™ sale in 2011. At that time, we had one product available, built with the intent of disrupting the legacy storage market. Our software-driven, all-flash stateless storage array laid the foundation on which we continue to deliver innovative products and solutions.

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Technology Marketing Management 85

Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Why RC buildings failed in the 2011 Van, Turkey, earthquakes: construction versus design practices. Seismic performance of wide-beam infill-joist block RC frames in Turkey. Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities 29(1): 1-9. Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities 31(3): Korkmaz, K.A.

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Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard Fashion 183

Pure Storage

AUGUST 21, 2023

We’ve been named the top vendor for Enterprise Network Storage Hardware , including: Product Innovation Support Partnership Managed & Cloud Services Pure Storage has been expanding our product and solutions portfolio since we introduced our first FlashArray ™ in August 2011. This kind of innovation is core to everything we do.

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Marketing High Availability Technology Management 82

Online Computers

MARCH 22, 2024

In a 2011 study by IBM , which included more than 1,500 CEOs across 25 nations, 93% of the executives emphasized that enhancing comprehension, forecasting, and delivering what customers genuinely desire ranked among the foremost priorities for themselves and their organizations.

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Retail B2B Technology Marketing 52

National Fire Protection Association

JUNE 20, 2023

For example, home as a workplace accounted for 28% of workplace exposure to electricity fatalities in 2011. Even though the number of employees working from home increased from 19% in 2019 to 39% in 2020, this does not appear to have skewed the numbers. Home improvement, remodeling, repair, and landscaping businesses are often underregulated.

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All-Hazards Hazard 62

Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 15, 2024

First in Computer Weekly (2009) and Private Eye (2011), and then in mainstream newspapers, so this story was not new. The people prosecuted were not rich, someone from a community far away; they were people like us, and we could think, “What if our employer wanted to maliciously prosecute us?”

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Media Continuity Professionals Government Consulting 52

Pure Storage

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

From 2011 to 2022, Keurig users grew from 7 million to 38 million. In 2022, the average cup of coffee in the U.S. cost about $4.90, but the average American is willing to pay more than that for specialty drinks. Interestingly, most Americans still make coffee at home instead of buying it on the go.

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Logistics Transportation Alert Marketing 110

Recovery Diva

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Reviewed by Donald Watson, editor of the website theOARSlist.com , Organizations Addressing Resilience and Sustainability, editor of Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design (McGraw-Hill 2001), and co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011). He has served as consultant for United Nations, U.S.

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National Fire Protection Association

JULY 26, 2023

The following chart shows the top four components attributed to these fatalities since 2011. Information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) database is being used to assist employers in decreasing these workplace fatalities. Source: BLS Powerline fatalities average 79 per year.

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All-Hazards Hazard 71

Business Continuity Today

MAY 4, 2021

Gamification is the use of game elements to improve user experience and user engagement in non-game services and applications (Deterding, Sicart, Nacke, O'Hara & Dixon, 2011). Generally speaking, gamification has the potential to aid in the gathering of quantitative data.

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Emergency Response Emergency Response Management Evaluation 40

Business Continuity Today

MAY 4, 2021

Gamification is the use of game elements to improve user experience and user engagement in non-game services and applications (Deterding, Sicart, Nacke, O'Hara & Dixon, 2011). Generally speaking, gamification has the potential to aid in the gathering of quantitative data.

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Emergency Response Emergency Response Management Evaluation 40

Crisis Response Journal

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Editorial Advisory Panel Member Christo Motz covers the military urban survival course he attended from September 18 – 24, 2011, in the area around Halmstad and deals with practical solutions and strategies to survive a worst-case scenario during a massiv By Christo Motz

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Risk Management Monitor

JANUARY 5, 2022

This figure dwarfs other areas such as corporate tax avoidance, where HMRC estimates that $94 billion (£70 billion) was avoided between 2011 and 2015. It is estimated that over $2 trillion (£1.6 trillion) total is lost each year due to procurement fraud, or 4-8% percent of an organization’s procurement spending.

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Authorization Transportation Vulnerability Government 97

Emergency Planning

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

At the other end of the scale, in the Tōhoku region of northeast Honshu, Japan, there are now 62 museums dedicated to the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear release. For years, efforts to create a documentation centre and memorial at the site were routinely blocked.

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Tourism Travel Mitigation 130

Zerto

MARCH 31, 2022

Since its inception in 2011, World Backup Day has been the yearly reminder for users worldwide to evaluate their backup plans and what they are doing to protect against data loss. While there is never a wrong time to evaluate your data backup and recovery plan, there is certainly no more appropriate day than today—World Backup Day.

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Backup Evaluation Application Technology 85

Pure Storage

DECEMBER 14, 2022

From the first product we brought to market in 2011 to our more extensive portfolio of solutions today, Pure’s approach to partner collaboration has been simple and uncomplicated: We help our partners grow their skills and businesses by developing their own services to deliver the right storage solution to customers at the right time.

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Marketing Technology Management 87

Emergency Planning

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. Since 2008, pandemics have been top of the list of 96 threats and hazards in the UK National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies in all editions. There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. The problem has been the abyss between planning, preparedness and practice.

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Civil Emergency Pandemic All-Hazards Logistics 130

Plan B Consulting

JUNE 24, 2021

Evergreen Container Ship getting stuck in the Suez Canal (Figure 1) The 2011 floods in Thailand (Figure 2) Fukushima Earthquake (Figure 3) These three incidents, for me, represent ‘traditional’ incidents. In a similar situation, in 2011, I worked for a high-tech company on a product that regulated traffic through internet pipes and cables.

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Manufacturing Scenario Planning Pandemic Travel 52

Plan B Consulting

JUNE 24, 2021

Evergreen Container Ship getting stuck in the Suez Canal (Figure 1) The 2011 floods in Thailand (Figure 2) Fukushima Earthquake (Figure 3). In a similar situation, in 2011, I worked for a high-tech company on a product that regulated traffic through internet pipes and cables.

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Manufacturing Scenario Planning Pandemic Travel 52

Pure Storage

MARCH 24, 2023

When Pure’s first FlashArray ™ product was launched in 2011, we worked exclusively with Resellers to support customer needs for storage. In an intensely competitive market where partners have their choice of vendor relationships, here’s a look at why Pure’s Partner Program wins, day after day and year after year.

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Accreditation Marketing Authorization Government 52

Emergency Planning

AUGUST 22, 2019

In 2011, when I was approached by Elsevier about establishing the IJDRR, the first question was, "Is there a need for a new journal in this field?" Seven years later, the submission rate is equivalent to about 1,500 manuscripts per year (although the rejection rate is over 80 per cent).

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Publishing All-Hazards Risk Reduction Education 130

Security Industry Association

OCTOBER 25, 2021

AA : AxxonSoft has been participating in ISC events since 2011, and we’re surely planning to continue doing that. We’re looking forward to the opportunities of learning and peer-to-peer networking, and we’re sure SIA will help us continue to grow. How does your organization engage with SIA?

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Cloud Computing Security Marketing Authorization 98

Security Industry Association

JUNE 3, 2022

She left Unisys in 2011 to explore a role with a small business focused on CBP and ICE Intel solutions. “In The success of WHTI led to Alexa’s promotion as vice president responsible for all CBP solutions.

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Travel Transportation Government Strategic 95

NexusTek

JANUARY 25, 2023

Offering in-depth IT assessments and executive-level technology leadership services, NexusTek puts the expertise you need for a successful M&A at your fingertips. CONTACT US References: 1, 2. Kengelbach, J., Berberich, U., & Keienburg, G. 2015, October 14). Why deals fail. McKinsey & Company. State of ITAM report.

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Strategic Application Cyber Resilience Cybersecurity 92

Recovery Diva

MAY 12, 2022

Review by Donald Watson, co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011). Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management. Emerald Publishing Ltd. He has since served in over thirty nations worldwide as consultant for United Nations, U.S.

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