Mon.Nov 29, 2021

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Product Review: Water Purification Tool for Everyone

Disaster Zone

For the person in your life who has everything, but not this item.

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Lean Six Sigma: Process improvement with a purpose

CIO Governance

Lean Six Sigma combines two methodologies, Lean and Six Sigma, to help accelerate specific processes so that organizations can solve problems faster and reduce waste, while creating more value for customers. It combines the waste-reducing mentality of the Lean methodology with the defect and variance reduction focus of Six Sigma. Together, Lean Six Sigma creates a powerful methodology for keeping businesses ahead of schedule and under budget, enabling organizations to create processes that suppo

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Opinion: B.C. Flooding Is Harbinger of Pacific NW Earthquake

Disaster Zone

My op-ed that ran in the Seattle Times Nov. 27.

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Suiting Up for a Crisis Part II: The Crisis Management Team

BryghtPath

This article is the second in a two-part series dedicated to helping crisis team leaders and team members prepare for their next crisis. You can read part I at this link. As a newly minted member of your organization’s crisis management team, it’s normal to have a ton of questions (and probably anxieties) about what … The post Suiting Up for a Crisis Part II: The Crisis Management Team appeared first on Bryghtpath.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Another New Variant to Add to the List

Disaster Zone

Omicron is the latest new pandemic hazard.

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PagerDuty at AWS re:Invent 2021-Deepening Our Collaboration with AWS by Inga Weizman

PagerDuty

Across the globe, in-person technology events are beginning to emerge from their pandemic hibernation. For developers and DevOps teams, no event has been more anticipated than AWS re:Invent, which is back in Las Vegas, November 29th — December 3rd to help bring us all back together and slowly let us find our new normal. While handshakes may be replaced by elbow bumps or other newfound greeting rituals, we are excited to be back and see all of you in real life.

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SIA New Member Profile: PureTech Systems

Security Industry Association

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member PureTech Systems Inc. is a privately owned technology corporation established in 2004 and a leader in the location and machine learning/deep learning-based artificial intelligence (AI) video analytics market, with a focus on applications involving security of critical infrastructure and false alarm reduction for video central monitoring stations, where it offers its AI video analytics as a service.

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Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop service with Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop???Azure Active Directory Domain Service?????

Citrix

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What Will Omicron Bring Us for Christmas?

Disaster Zone

Is it the Grinch?

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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Choose the Gift of Electrical Safety This Holiday Season

National Fire Protection Association

“It's the most wonderful time, of the yearrrr…” Although I know I can’t carry a tune like Andy Williams, singing along to Christmas carols around the home, or in my car, brings me a lot of joy and helps to bring the Christmas spirit to life for me. Giving is in abundance this time of year, not only through physical presents, but also through helping others in need.

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?Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service?????Azure Active Directory Domain Services??????

Citrix

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Nuclear Strategists Know How Dangerous the Debt Fight Is

The Rand Blog

Nuclear-war strategists' work offers a warning for Congress: The more times a game is played, the more treacherous it becomes, because when both sides believe catastrophe will always be averted in the end, each behaves more rashly. In the debt-ceiling dispute, the United States could end up defaulting precisely because each side keeps waiting for the other to blink.

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Work 2022: Rewriting the rules for work

Citrix

The great unplanned work from home experiment has advanced thinking on workforce strategies, work models, and business models by decades. And we’re about to see a massive explosion in innovation because of it. Business today is a moving target. From … The post Work 2022: Rewriting the rules for work first appeared on Citrix Blogs. Related Stories Why your hybrid workforce needs a digital workspace Workplace Technology 2022: Unlocking the art of the possible Det nya arbetslivets krav fö

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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COVID Infections Up 25 Percent

Disaster Zone

The solution is vaccines, should you want them.

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Crisis Support Teams – What are they & do I need one?

Plan B Consulting

Creating an effective crisis management team can be complex as you have to take many factors into consideration. In this bulletin, Charlie outlines his thoughts on creating a crisis support team, and what their functions and roles could be. Four years ago I started working on my PhD with the University of Glasgow. After a few false starts on deciding what my question should be, I settled on researching the subject of senior managers and crisis management.

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Public Education in Multiple Languages

Disaster Zone

It is not good enough just to add Spanish.

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Work 2022: Rewriting the rules for work

Citrix

The great unplanned work from home experiment has advanced thinking on workforce strategies, work models, and business models by decades. And we’re about to see a massive explosion in innovation because of it. Business today is a moving target. From … The post Work 2022: Rewriting the rules for work first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha

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Job: Training and Exercise Coordinator in Seattle

Disaster Zone

Another job opening in Seattle.

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Crisis Support Teams – What are they & do I need one?

Plan B Consulting

Creating an effective crisis management team can be complex as you have to take many factors into consideration. In this bulletin, Charlie outlines his thoughts on creating a crisis support team, and what their functions and roles could be. Four years ago I started working on my PhD with the University of Glasgow. After a few false starts on deciding what my question should be, I settled on researching the subject of senior managers and crisis management.

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If Certification is in Your Plans, Now is the Time!

Prism International

First of all, it is important to remember that i-SIGMA is a non-profit trade association with a mission to improve market conditions for all its members, and the same was true of NAID and PRISM International before the merger. In its role as a member-owned organization, i-SIGMA provides a robust repertoire of member benefits, including state-of-the-art contracts and agreements, marketing materials, regulatory intervention, and educational events.

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Solutions Review’s Third Annual BUDR Insight Jam: Event Live Blog

Solutions Review

Solutions Review presents its third annual BUDR Insight Jam community web event! Our editors will live blog all the news, tips, and insights in this space. The BUDR Insight Jam is a backup and recovery community web event. Solutions Review editors are bringing the best and brightest minds in the industry together for a one-day social media gathering.

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Discover Data Breakthroughs with Pure Storage at Gartner® IOCS

Pure Storage

The past 12-18 months have presented greater challenges for Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) leaders compared to any other time in the era of high technology. Digital transformation initiatives were put on fast forward as organizations accelerated digitization efforts to connect with consumers and employees in remote environments. . At the same time, the industry has seen the requirement to adopt new disruptive technologies and use cases to stay competitive and current.

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Operational Resilience Self-Assessment: Achieving the March 2022 Deadline

Castellan

In March 2021, The Bank of England, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published policy documents about operational resilience. These were the results of a long-running consultation, which set out the expectations that regulators have for future regulation and compliance in this area. The publication set the clock running on an initial 12-month period that regulated firms must make an initial self-assessment of the operational resilience status i

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How schools can use IT to save money

Online Computers

Dramatic changes to operations brought about by COVID-19 have forced many New Jersey schools to reassess the way they spend their funds. And with funding challenges, it’s inevitable that business components deemed noncritical will be left by the wayside. This is a rather common scenario with IT components such as cybersecurity and tech support, and it can hurt your school more than you realize.

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Crisis Support Teams – What are they & do I need one?

Plan B Consulting

Creating an effective crisis management team can be complex as you have to take many factors into consideration. In this bulletin, Charlie outlines his thoughts on creating a crisis support team, and what their functions and roles could be. Four years ago I started working on my PhD with the University of Glasgow. After a few false starts on deciding what my question should be, I settled on researching the subject of senior managers and crisis management.

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Identify Risks to Digital Operations

everbridge

In today’s increasingly digital world, organizations must balance investment in uptime and experience with capital expenditure toward ongoing innovation. More than ever before, uninterrupted digital operations are responsible for the fiscal success of companies. Yet, these digital landscapes are major areas of vulnerability to business continuity. Today’s digital service disruptions can greatly affect people, facilities, assets and a company’s brand.