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Covid-19 and the Disaster Research Gold Rush

Emergency Planning

As I write, the Covid-19 pandemic is ramping up in many countries. So is the response by academic authors. In 2015 Gaillard and Gomez published an interesting paper on the "disaster research gold rush". Authors can write in haste and repent at their leisure: editors can rue the day. Gomez 2015. Haas and E.L.

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Some Observations On The Baroness Mone of Mayfair OBE’s Crisis Management

Plan B Consulting

From humble roots, she built her fortune on the Ultimo bra in 1999, but sold her stake in the company in 2015. At the beginning of the pandemic, she took the ‘VIP lane’ deals, making use of her political connections and provided PPE (personal protective equipment), which was later found to be substandard and unusable.

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More on the Covid-19 Academic Gold Rush

Emergency Planning

In this context, I salute the thoughtful work of Christopher Gomez, Dierdre Hart and JC Gaillard (Gomez and Hart 2013, Gaillard and Gomez 2015) on the phenomenon of the "disaster gold rush". It is obvious that much of what is written will be read by practically no one beyond the authors and perhaps a couple of referees. Gomez 2015.

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Closing and Reopening Offices, Restaurants, and Retail Outlets, after an Incident

Plan B Consulting

This dilemma also arose as organisations encouraged employees to return to offices after the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of the preparation for the exercise, I researched the Chipotle Mexican Grill food contamination outbreak in 2015. How do you convince both staff and customers that it’s safe to return to work or dine out?

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SIA New Member Profile: ThreatModeler

Security Industry Association

In 2015, ThreatModeler launched a new version of its software that was web-based and aimed at enterprises. In response to the pandemic, the ThreatModeler team took time to reassess and advance research and development, utilizing the widespread business disruption as a time to further develop its solutions.

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SIA New Member Profile: HiveWatch

Security Industry Association

In 2015, I was leading the global security and safety technology group for a Fortune 500 company when I noticed there were a significant number of inefficiencies stemming from disparate systems being used and antiquated policies. HiveWatch Founder and CEO Ryan Schonfeld.

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Business Continuity 2025 – What Will Future Incidents Look Like?

Plan B Consulting

São Paulo, Brazil’s financial capital and one of the 10 most populated cities, nearly ran out of water in 2015, when the main reservoir fell below 4% capacity. When BC started, I know of a Scottish Local Authority which spent £100k on external consultants to develop their BC plans.