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All Outages Like British Air are ALWAYS Human Error!

Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

Here’s why: Humans are the Cog in Risk Management and Due Diligence Risk Management by its very nature is non-deterministic and heuristic. Humans conflate Availability with Contingency Many outages are caused or exacerbated because ‘fail-proof’ systems failed. Why are humans the prime point of failure?

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AlertMedia Improves Emergency Management with the Launch of Event Pages: Connecting People with Critical Information in Real-Time

Disaster Recovery Journal

 AlertMedia , the fastest-growing emergency mass notification software  provider in the world, has improved how organizations manage and communicate emergencies. Our customers needed a better way to manage the lifecycle of an emergency ,â?? Our customers needed a better way to manage the lifecycle of an emergency ,â??

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Managing Extreme Heat Events

everbridge

With power outages, you now have people who are oxygen dependent, who don’t have access to their oxygen because the power’s been turned off. Second, emergency managers are opening cooling shelters, trying to get the homeless and vulnerable populations into areas where they’re not going to suffer from the extreme heat.

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Leading by (Bad) Example: Companies in the News Show What Not to Do 

MHA Consulting

It’s never very hard to find examples of companies whose casual approach to resiliency and crisis management has come back to bite them. Alternately, they might acknowledge the possibility of outages but resist investing in BC on the theory that their people are good enough to improvise their way out of trouble if anything does go wrong.

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Identifying Important Business Functions: Your Building Blocks for DORA Compliance and Incident Management

Fusion Risk Management

The ability to be compliant and mitigate the impact of disruption through a robust incident management strategy begins with understanding the most critical business functions that comprise your organization. Respond You will also need to have a strategic incident management process in place.

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How Business Continuity Strategy and Critical Communications Help Manufacturers Protect Workers and Facilities

On Solve

Here are five ways manufacturing companies can get the most out of a business continuity program with the help of a critical communications product. A critical communications system with mass notification capability can enable your organization to maintain essential business functions and avoid a lapse in service or production.

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Five Key Takeaways from the 2021 Business Continuity Event Impact Management Report

Castellan

BC Management recently released its 2021 Business Continuity Management Event Impact Report in partnership with Witt O’Brien’s. While business continuity, crisis management, and operational resilience teams tackled the pandemic and other business disruptors throughout the year, many did so with small teams.