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2022 Predictions: How Far Will Shortages Spread?

DRI Drive

The DRI International Future Vision Committee has released its 7th Annual Predictions Report, looking ahead to 2022 and its impact on the resilience community. Download the complete report free from the DRI Library, and read on for a prediction about the potential spread of labor and material shortages. Prediction 8: Material and labor shortages spread […].

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Disaster Zone Podcast: Bainbridge Island Flotilla

Disaster Zone

Boaters can be disaster volunteers too! And, it floats.

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Are Smart Power Strips Worth It?

Constellation

As you update your home systems and look for ways to make it more energy-efficient, you might be wondering are smart power strips worth it? Before answering that question, you’ll also want to know. (This is a content summary only. Click on the blog title to continue reading this post.).

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Ukraine Needs Help Surviving Airstrikes, Not Just Killing Tanks

The Rand Blog

A Russian large-scale multidomain operation would be devastating for the Ukrainian military and people, and Ukraine should work to prevent that. But steps can also be taken to reduce the effects of the air and missile strikes that would likely lead off such an operation.

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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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Your Supply Chain May Not Be As Resilient as You Think

BryghtPath

“Companies routinely exaggerate the attractiveness of foreign markets, and that can lead to expensive mistakes.” -Pankaj Ghemawat, Global Professor of Management and Strategy at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Ghemawat’s statement sounds like a round-up of recent supply chain woes at the hands of the COVID pandemic crisis. Yet it comes from his … The post Your Supply Chain May Not Be As Resilient as You Think appeared first on Bryghtpath.

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How Sales, HR, and Finance can simplify, accelerate work with Citrix Podio

Citrix

Time-consuming, manual processes exist in all departments. Whether it’s onboarding new employees, closing deals, or budget management, every department has processes that slow down the speed of business. Citrix Podio can reduce these complexities by consolidating content, processes, and communications … The post How Sales, HR, and Finance can simplify, accelerate work with Citrix Podio first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Tips for Fostering a Culture of Innovation in Insurance: Mark Rieder, SVP, Head of Innovation, NFP

Chisel AI

Can you share any details about NFP’s digital strategy? About five years ago, we set out on a path of innovation within NFP. Our initial focus was on gaining a better understanding of all the insurtech platforms, products, and solutions that were coming to market that we felt were poised to enhance the insurance industry and our business. While some might have called them disruptive technology, we looked at everything that was happening in a positive light.

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How Sales, HR, and Finance can simplify, accelerate work with Citrix Podio

Citrix

Time-consuming, manual processes exist in all departments. Whether it’s onboarding new employees, closing deals, or budget management, every department has processes that slow down the speed of business. Citrix Podio can reduce these complexities by consolidating content, processes, and communications … The post How Sales, HR, and Finance can simplify, accelerate work with Citrix Podio first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Register to attend the free Research Foundation webinar on “The Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 on Firefighter Health”

National Fire Protection Association

The COVID-19 pandemic has severely changed the lives and well-being of everyone globally. As the pandemic has progressed, clinicians and scientists have become increasingly alarmed with what has been termed “Long COVID” – continued symptoms of COVID-19 that last three weeks or more after the diagnosis. The Fire Protection Research Foundation, the research affiliate of NFPA, will host a webinar. [[ This is a content summary only.

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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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Preview: Adaptive access based on network location for Citrix Workspace

Citrix

Organizations need employees to be productive, no matter where they’re working from or what device they’re working on. At the same time, they need to ensure secure access to corporate resources and that potential threats are managed to protect the … The post Preview: Adaptive access based on network location for Citrix Workspace first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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Charting a Smarter Path to the Future with Ordnance Survey    

Pure Storage

For over 230 years, Ordnance Survey (OS) has been mapping Great Britain in extraordinary detail. The tech company has developed one of the world’s largest spatial databases made up of over 500 million uniquely identified features, including roads, buildings, parks, and waterways, which are all stored on Pure Storage® FlashArray//X. OS is well known for its iconic paper maps, an essential tool for walkers, but its expertise and data also underpin many of the services the British public connects w

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Preview: Adaptive access based on network location for Citrix Workspace

Citrix

Organizations need employees to be productive, no matter where they’re working from or what device they’re working on. At the same time, they need to ensure secure access to corporate resources and that potential threats are managed to protect the … The post Preview: Adaptive access based on network location for Citrix Workspace first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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It’s Time for Automotive OEMs to Put Data First

Pure Storage

Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the automotive industry are facing a rude awakening. Data-led technological advances are sweeping away decades of engineering-led tradition that was based on volume manufacturing and vehicle sales. First movers like Tesla are setting the pace as primarily a software and data business, while their role as a manufacturer becomes almost a supporting function.

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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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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. Testimony Submitted January 16, 2022. By: Jeff Schlegelmilch, MPH, MBA. Thank you for the opportunity to testify before the Subcommittee today. In my role leading the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University’s Climate School, as well as through other positions, I have dedi

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On-Premise Self Hosted Integration Runtime for Azure Data Factory: How to configure with Private Endpoints and a Proxy Server

Advancing Analytics

Introduction. In this post I will discuss the solution to a problem that plagued me on a client job for about 7 days! The problem is a very specific configuration of an Azure Data Factory Self Hosted Integration Runtime, which I will explain in the next section. This post is aimed at people who are familiar with Azure Data Factory, and ideally have a basic understanding of what a Self Hosted Integration Runtime is.

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Illuminating Supply Chain Obstacles to Increase Organizational Resilience

Castellan

Article Originally Published on Supply & Demand Chain Executive in January 202 2. Improving organizational resilience starts from the ground level and requires organizations to look through a larger lens. At the start of 2021, 87% of supply chain professionals stated that they plan to invest in resilience in the next two years. While it’s important to have a forward-facing outlook and explore ways to improve supply chain resilience, it’s even more important to develop a shared understandin

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How Does Data Power Modern Video Games?

Pure Storage

With an estimated 3.24 billion gamers around the world and a market expected to reach $545.98 billion by 2028 , gaming data is a valuable resource that can help game development companies optimize and improve business performance. It’s also notable that, in recent years, online video games have overtaken traditional hardware-based games in many cases.

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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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Recommender Systems — Using Snorkel for Relevance Labelling

Advancing Analytics

Introduction to Snorkel Created in Stanford in 2016, Snorkel is a system for programmatically building and managing training datasets without the need for manual labelling. This replaces the very laborious task of getting humans to label enough data to train accurate machine learning models, saving both time and money. Win-win! In this example we will look at how Snorkel can be used as part of a recommender system to label the relevance of different books for a user.