July, 2015

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Leadership in a Crisis: Performing under pressure 

Crisis Response Journal

In this blog post, Dominic Cockram, conference chair and managing director of specialist crisis management and business continuity consultancy, Steelhenge, discusses crisis leadership and the characteristics effective crisis leaders should demonstrate.

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Business Continuity in the Philippines

Plan B Consulting

This week I am working in the Philippines, developing business continuity for a multinational building materials manufacturer. It is my first time here so I thought I would share some lessons learned from developing business continuity in a different country to my own; the United Kingdom. The first thing I have noticed is that Filipino people are much more aware of natural disasters than us.

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RUSI Resilience Essay Prize: Resilience 2050: A Blueprint for the Future 

Crisis Response Journal

Crisis Response Journal is delighted to be supporting a sub-category of this prestigious new prize, organised by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).

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Ebola is not over: No room for complacency 

Crisis Response Journal

Ebola is not defeated in West Africa but appears to be off the radar for the mainstream news media, writes Editorial Advisory Panel Member Roger Gomm.

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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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Healthcare facilities in Pakistan: A crisis in numbers 

Crisis Response Journal

Access to healthcare is a problem that seems to make itself obvious every few weeks in Pakistan, says Luavut Zahid, who has commissioned this blog.

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Business Continuity in the Philippines

Plan B Consulting

This week I am working in the Philippines, developing business continuity for a multinational building materials manufacturer. It is my first time here so I thought I would share some lessons learned from developing business continuity in a different country to my own; the United Kingdom. The first thing I have noticed is that Filipino people are much more aware of natural disasters than us.

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7/7 Lessons Learned

Plan B Consulting

I thought this week with the 10th anniversary of 7/7 I would look back through one of the reports on the incident by the London Assembly (Report of the 7th July Review Committee) and highlight some of the learning points from the incident. If we can learn from incidents and improve our response, then something good has come out of a terrible incident.

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7/7 Lessons Learned

Plan B Consulting

I thought this week with the 10th anniversary of 7/7 I would look back through one of the reports on the incident by the London Assembly (Report of the 7th July Review Committee) and highlight some of the learning points from the incident. If we can learn from incidents and improve our response, then something good has come out of a terrible incident.

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Planning for mass fatalities abroad – lessons learned from Tunisia

Plan B Consulting

For this week’s bulletin I couldn’t leave unmentioned the horrific attack on holidaymakers in Tunisia, just over a week ago. I find myself struggling somewhat to know what to say on the attack and relate it meaningfully to business continuity due to the number of victims and the horror of the event. To call this a business continuity incident seems a bit trite but there has been an emergency response to the incident and the way the authorities respond can make an enormous difference to an alread

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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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Planning for mass fatalities abroad – lessons learned from Tunisia

Plan B Consulting

For this week’s bulletin I couldn’t leave unmentioned the horrific attack on holidaymakers in Tunisia, just over a week ago. I find myself struggling somewhat to know what to say on the attack and relate it meaningfully to business continuity due to the number of victims and the horror of the event. To call this a business continuity incident seems a bit trite but there has been an emergency response to the incident and the way the authorities respond can make an enormous difference to an alread

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