Thu.Nov 03, 2022

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FEMA S&T Issues New Grant to Stabilize Community Resources

Recovery Diva

From HStoday: DHS S&T Issues $1.9M Contract to Help FEMA Stabilize Community Resources in Disasters – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate announced a $1,994,442 contract award to G&H International Services, Inc. (G&H International) to design, develop and implement a Community Lifeline Status System (CLSS) for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

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The Importance of Building a Culture of Trust and Compliance

Fusion Risk Management

As risk professionals, we talk a lot about building a culture of accountability and promoting our core values of integrity and trust. The programs that we design and nurture exist to keep our organizations safe – whether it be from threats like risk assumed by a third party, the global nature of our jobs, threats to our workforce by COVID-19, labor shortages, or cyberattacks.

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Improving Communications With Microsoft Teams’ New Scheduled Chat Feature

LAN Infotech

Improving Communications With Microsoft Teams’ New Scheduled Chat Feature. Key Points in This Article. Microsoft Teams allows users to schedule the chat messages they compose up to seven days in the future. Scheduled chat messages can be edited or deleted before sending as necessary. This feature, available for 1:1 Teams Chat conversations, can help users communicate more effectively in several ways.

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Seeking Moral Clarity

Disaster Zone

It is a debate happening now among journalists.

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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 Retro Revolution:  Why Manual Workarounds  Are a BC Must 

BCM METRICS

Because technology is vulnerable to disruption—and disruptions are on the rise—every organization should devise manual workarounds for its critical business processes. An Eye-Opening Exercise Earlier this week I did a two-hour mock disaster exercise with a healthcare client. The scenario was, “A regional internet outage has occurred; you have no internet access to the outside […].

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Enhance U.S. Rare Earth Security Through International Cooperation

The Rand Blog

Most rare earth elements and materials are sourced from overseas but China dominates extraction and processing. With closer multinational cooperation, the United States and its allies and partners could reduce vulnerabilities due to the dependency on China.

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The Retro Revolution:  Why Manual Workarounds  Are a BC Must 

MHA Consulting

Because technology is vulnerable to disruption—and disruptions are on the rise—every organization should devise manual workarounds for its critical business processes. Related on BCMMETRICS: When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Resilient An Eye-Opening Exercise Earlier this week I did a two-hour mock disaster exercise with a healthcare client. The scenario was, “A regional internet outage has occurred; you have no internet access to the outside world.

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The Equity-First Vaccination Initiative's Challenges and Successes

The Rand Blog

The Equity-First Vaccination Initiative invested $21 million in community-based organizations to reduce racial disparities in vaccination rollout and support strengthening public health systems in the United States over the longer term. The initiative demonstrated a path forward for funders to center equity in their approach to grantmaking.

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How to Build an Emergency Action Plan for Any Situation

Alert Media

The post How to Build an Emergency Action Plan for Any Situation appeared first on AlertMedia.

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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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How to Build a Business Continuity Management Program That Lasts

Business Resilience Decoded

Episode 129: How to Build a Business Continuity Management Program That Lasts This episode is brought to you by Fusion Risk Management, Building a More Resilient World Together. Request a demo at [link] today! With a recession looming, climate change, and political strife ever present, more and more organizations are looking to an uncertain future. One way to help mitigate this uncertainty is to build a lasting business continuity program.

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Did You Miss Our Webinar on Operational Resilience?

Continuity Insights

Operational resilience continues to influence the way we think about preventing, responding, recovering and learning from disruption. View this free webinar as Mike Keating of Reinsurance Group and Brian Zawada of Riskonnect discuss their passion for the promise of “op res”, and cover the following four key topics: Why organizations all around the world in.

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How to Build a Business Continuity Management Program That Lasts

Business Resilience Decoded

Episode 129: How to Build a Business Continuity Management Program That Lasts This episode is brought to you by Fusion Risk Management, Building a More Resilient World Together. Request a demo at [link] today! With a recession looming, climate change, and political strife ever present, more and more organizations are looking to an uncertain future. One way to help mitigate this uncertainty is to build a lasting business continuity program.

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New Cybersecurity Regulations To Impact South Florida Businesses

LAN Infotech

New Cybersecurity Regulations To Impact South Florida Businesses. We live in a world of unrelenting technological advancement and digitalization. Fuelled by a rising volume of sensitive information moving across interconnected and integrated systems, the cybersecurity threat landscape is growing exponentially in scope, scale, and complexity. The rise of emerging technologies such as 5G connectivity and the Internet of Things (IoT) will only exacerbate the situation.

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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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How to Build a Business Continuity Management Program That Lasts

Business Resilience Decoded

Episode 129: How to Build a Business Continuity Management Program That Lasts This episode is brought to you by Fusion Risk Management, Building a More Resilient World Together. Request a demo at [link] today! With a recession looming, climate change, and political strife ever present, more and more organizations are looking to an uncertain future. One way to help mitigate this uncertainty is to build a lasting business continuity program.