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Foresight

Emergency Planning

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. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a cascading disaster with global ramifications.

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Business Continuity and Risk Management

BCP Builder

However, some Business Continuity Plans may contain lower level risks that are important to the department but not significant to the organization as a whole Risk Management is focused on the mitigation of issues and Business Continuity is more concerned about a worst case scenario action plan.

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Is it Possible to Keep Up with the Literature?

Emergency Planning

I am the founding editor of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (IJDRR), which began publishing in August 2012 with just four papers. Fortunately, there are some mitigating factors, for example, the lack of innovation in most published research.

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Powering Resilience with Critical Event Management

everbridge

According to the IMF’s World Uncertainty Index , “…global uncertainty has increased significantly since 2012. Uncertainty is the New Normal. Looking back at the past 60 years, we see few episodes in which uncertainty has been at levels close to those observed in the past decade.”. Uncertainty impacts business confidence.

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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. 1] [link]. [2] 1] [link].

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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. Whatever the merits of this case, the issue of compensation after an incident is very difficult. Last week I was teaching the BCI Good Practice Guidelines 5 day training course.

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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. Whatever the merits of this case, the issue of compensation after an incident is very difficult. Last week I was teaching the BCI Good Practice Guidelines 5 day training course.