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Report: 90% of U.S. Counties Have Declared Federal Disasters

DRI Drive

90% of U.S. counties experienced a climate-related federal disaster over the course of the last decade – but some areas saw more assistance than others. A new report says it’s time to reevaluate how the country invests in preventative measures. The 650-page report from Rebuild By Design, Atlas of Disaster, found nearly every county in […]. The post Report: 90% of U.S.

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GAO on Block Grants in Recovery

Recovery Diva

From the GAO: Disaster Recovery: Better Information Is Needed on the Progress of Block Grant Funds.

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California's Ambitious Decarbonization Plan Hasn't Been Future-Proofed

The Rand Blog

California is set to approve an ambitious blueprint to make the state carbon neutral by 2045. But there's been no integrated stress test of the whole plan. The state needs and deserves a future-proofed, stress-tested plan that all Californians can trust to achieve its climate goals.

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What Was New in ’22: The BCM Year in Review

BCM METRICS

The year 2022 saw the tapering off of the pandemic, the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, an ongoing wave of cyberattacks, continuing supply chain woes, and a renewed focus by organizations on identifying and protecting their most essential business processes. Read on to learn about the BCM year in review. Getting Back in […]. The post What Was New in ’22: The BCM Year in Review appeared first on BCMMETRICS.

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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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The Trouble with Russian Blacklisting

The Rand Blog

Analysis, informed by interactions with Russians, offers Western leaders a window into Russia. Blacklists hinder this process. With the stakes so high, much depends on experts' success in getting their analysis right.

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Putting Sustainability at the Heart of the Enterprise

BMC

Sustainability is defined across three dimensions: social, economic, and environmental. As businesses continue to adapt their operational models for post-pandemic planning, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives are becoming more important for present and future employees, stakeholders, and customers. But what does this mean, exactly?

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What Was New in ’22: The BCM Year in Review

MHA Consulting

The year 2022 saw the tapering off of the pandemic, the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, an ongoing wave of cyberattacks, continuing supply chain woes, and a renewed focus by organizations on identifying and protecting their most essential business processes. Read on to learn about the BCM year in review. Related on BCMMETRICS: Global Turmoil Making You Ill?

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How Ingram Micro Cloud empowers forward-thinking growth

Acronis

John Dusett, Executive Director, U.S. Cloud Services at Ingram Micro, spoke at the Acronis #CyberFit Summit 2022. He talked about how distributors must be ‘partner-focused’ and ‘obsessed with growth’ to help MSPs win opportunities. He also discussed how his organization is assisting Acronis partners in making the transition to a services-led strategy so they can deliver the right business outcomes to their clients.

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Foundation for Advancing Security Talent Announces First-Ever National Security Technician Day: January 23, 2023

Security Industry Association

Day is dedicated to recognizing the valuable work that security technicians do to secure our nation. Silver Spring, Md. – The Foundation for Advancing Security Talent (FAST) has officially registered National Security Technician Day as an annual commemorative day on January 23 to honor security technicians across the country. On National Security Technician Day and the week that follows, FAST encourages all businesses and individuals in the security industry to recognize the hard work, dedicatio

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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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Seeding Files With dbt

Advancing Analytics

File seeding is a useful way of maintaining and deploying static, or very slowly changing, reference data for a data model to use repeatably and reliably across environments, whilst benefitting from source control. Seeding Files with dbt Seed files exist in the `seed` directory of dbt and can be added like any other csv to a directory. You can then run the `dbt seed` command which will insert the data into a table in Databricks, or whatever target system you’ve got set up for dbt.

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How a Rail Strike Would Derail Supply Chains

Business Resilience Decoded

Episode 133: How a Rail Strike Would Derail Supply Chains While the government has narrowly avoided a rail strike for now, it still looms as a possibility in the future. As we saw last year with the Suez Canal sideways ship block, a supply chain disruption can have a ripple effect across different industries that can linger for quite some time. As continuity professionals, we need to be constantly planning for possible disruptions.

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Four Physical Security Industry Trends For 2023

Continuity Insights

Security system unification, access control modernization, hybrid cloud advancement, and cybersecurity will be the top trends for the physical security industry in the coming year, predicts Genetec Inc. Here’s what to expect in 2023, according to the unified security, public safety, operations, and business intelligence solutions technology provider: 1.

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How a Rail Strike Would Derail Supply Chains

Business Resilience Decoded

Episode 133: How a Rail Strike Would Derail Supply Chains While the government has narrowly avoided a rail strike for now, it still looms as a possibility in the future. As we saw last year with the Suez Canal sideways ship block, a supply chain disruption can have a ripple effect across different industries that can linger for quite some time. As continuity professionals, we need to be constantly planning for possible disruptions.

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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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Ten Things That Inspired Me in 2022

The Rand Blog

It would be impossible to capture all the important work that RAND does in a year. But RAND president and CEO Jason Matheny has compiled ten times he was inspired by RAND's efforts to bring insight to some of the biggest policy stories of 2022.

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How a Rail Strike Would Derail Supply Chains

Business Resilience Decoded

Episode 133: How a Rail Strike Would Derail Supply Chains While the government has narrowly avoided a rail strike for now, it still looms as a possibility in the future. As we saw last year with the Suez Canal sideways ship block, a supply chain disruption can have a ripple effect across different industries that can linger for quite some time. As continuity professionals, we need to be constantly planning for possible disruptions.

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What If the North Pole Was a Data-driven Operation?

Pure Storage

Logistically speaking, there’s probably no operation in the world as big, complex, and ambitious as the North Pole’s. You’d have to rely on magic to make it happen—unless, of course, you had some seriously powerful technology behind it. So, what if Santa’s Workshop was a digital operation? It would certainly help keep things straight: toy supply chains, IoT Elves on Shelves, wish lists, a naughty or nice database with billions of entries, and some epic navigation support. .