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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Testimony to the House of Representatives Committee on Rules’ Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process for the Hearing: Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters. Figure 2: Adjustments to discretionary spending by fiscal year under the Budget Control Act, FY 2012–2021. 1] [link]. [2]

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Foresight

Emergency Planning

Moreover, the Coronavirus pandemic has been widely used as a pretext for curtailing human rights. 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. References Fukuyama, F. The End of History and the Last Man.

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10 Tips for framing your case for Business Continuity to Executives

BryghtPath

After a pandemic year like 2020—and 2021—executives get the importance of business continuity planning. And in 2012, after Hurricane Sandy. The situation was the same in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina. And after mass shooting incidents. Management has a heightened sense of why business continuity is necessary. Then, the memories fade.

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SIA New Member Profile: Quanergy

Security Industry Association

Gerald Becker : Quanergy, a publicly traded company (NYSE: QNGY and QNGY.WS), was founded in 2012 with the ambition to solve difficult problems in various markets with 3D technology. GB : Just a short time into the pandemic, businesses were deploying different solutions to track occupancy in their buildings and control social distancing.

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Powering Resilience with Critical Event Management

everbridge

Businesses and communities are experiencing a growing number of disruptions from threats like severe weather, civil unrest, theft and vandalism, pandemics, and cyber-attacks. According to the IMF’s World Uncertainty Index , “…global uncertainty has increased significantly since 2012. Uncertainty is the New Normal.

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How retailers are improving productivity, transforming incident response, and empowering teams with PagerDuty by PagerDuty

PagerDuty

The pandemic piled more pressure on retailers than ever before as brick-and-mortar stores saw traffic move to online shopping. Since launching an ecommerce business in 2012, its development arm Loblaw Digital has gradually shifted to a full-service ownership [MA1] model. Optimize Customer Experiences with Real-Time Operations.

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Business, Interrupted: The Importance of Compassion in a Crisis

Castellan

The world is fatigued post-pandemic. Horace was just two weeks into a new role when Hurricane Sandy struck in 2012. And for operational resilience professionals, there seems no end in sight for managing multiple crises or disruptions at once. So, how do you keep going? Get The Crisis Management Plan Template. DOWNLOAD NOW.