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More on the Covid-19 Academic Gold Rush

Emergency Planning

A few days ago, I was accused of "putting the careers of trainees and junior faculty at risk" because a member of my editorial team was slow to complete the review process on a paper that had been submitted to the journal I manage. This reminded me that perhaps 70 per cent of academic publishing is for personnel reasons (to get a job, keep a job, obtain a salary raise, or achieve promotion).

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Trusted voices online 

Crisis Response Journal

Only a few months into 2020, every sector and market worldwide has been exposed to crisis, writes Kate Rawlins, CRJ Advisory Panel Member and Associate Director of Helpful Digital.

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COVID-19 and climate change

IT Governance BC

Today is Earth Day , an annual global event that aims to raise awareness of environmental issues. This year’s event – the fiftieth Earth Day – falls in the midst of an unprecedented interruption to life as we know it, and so provides a unique opportunity for us to understand the impact we and our working habits have on the natural world. The environmental benefits of staying at home.

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5 Ways to Improve Your Economic Recovery Results Quickly

Swan Island Network

5 Ways to Improve Your Economic Recovery Results Quickly. Pete O'Dell. May 1, 2020. Share on facebook. Share on linkedin. Share on twitter. Share on email. As the global pandemic caused by COVID-19 (coronavirus) becomes more controllable, we face a unique problem. How to start the discretionary economy back up? Economic recovery is complex. Restarting the economy entails consumer activities like church, sporting events, and trips to the beach.

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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 state of data quality: Too much, too wild and too skewed

Behavior Group

We live in the age of data. We are constantly producing it, analyzing it, figuring out how to store and protect it, and, hopefully, using it to refine business practices and better understand the markets and customer we work with. However, this is all easier said than done and one of the biggest concerns that… Continue reading. The post The state of data quality: Too much, too wild and too skewed appeared first on Behaviour Portugal.

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The New Normal

BCP Builder

What will the new normal look like following the Coronavirus Pandemic? I have included two videos below: A webinar on how to return to business following this pandemic. In this webinar I am joined by Anthony McMahon from The IT Psychiatrist and Alastair Miller from NSP. My thoughts on what the new normal will look like following Coronavirus. Feedback from BCP Builder Community on this topic – (this is the link to the original LinkedIn Post ): What will “the new normal” look lik

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Disaster Medicine: Having the knowledge is essential; the ability to share is crucial 

Crisis Response Journal

Ayman Jundi shares what drew him to the field of emergency and disaster medicine and what has prompted him – and the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) – to launch its ground-breaking master’s course in Disaster Medicine this year.

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Coronavirus Response: The Peak-End Rule

Plan B Consulting

This week I discuss the psychological heuristic ‘peak-end rule’ and why this is important for planning your company’s recovery from COVID-19. Hope you have all had a nice bank holiday weekend at home! This week I wanted to look at how an incident is managed at the end, and whether it leaves a disproportionate impression on the successful management of the incident rather than taking into account the management across the entire incident.

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Business Continuity Planning for Small & Medium-Sized Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

Business Continuity Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Organizations Last Updated on May 31, 2020 by Alex Jankovic Reading Time: 4 minutes Readers note: Please check our recently published high-level Business Continuity Planning guide. In the “ An Introduction to Business Continuity Planning ” article, we outlined the main components of the Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program and introduced the basics of Business Continuity Planning (BCP).

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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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The Biggest Cybersecurity Mistakes CISOs Might be Making Today

Behavior Group

As more organizations move to the cloud, the need for airtight security has become paramount. As threats evolve and become more sophisticated, mitigating hacks and malicious attacks has become very difficult. And for many Fortune 1000 CISOs, some still believe that managing their security in-house or on-premise is safer and more cost-effective—when the opposite can… Continue reading.

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Interoperability Lessons For Right Now

Swan Island Network

Interoperability Lessons For Right Now. Pete O'Dell. April 10, 2020. Share on facebook. Share on linkedin. Share on twitter. Share on email. Remember when your new phone had a unique charger that wouldn’t work with other phones, and leaving it behind caused a major nightmare? Sanity prevailed, and except for Apple, the whole world now uses USB to plug virtually everything in.

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The New Normal

BCP Builder

What will the new normal look like following the Coronavirus Pandemic? I have included two videos below: A webinar on how to return to business following this pandemic. In this webinar I am joined by Anthony McMahon from The IT Psychiatrist and Alastair Miller from NSP. My thoughts on what the new normal will look like following Coronavirus. Feedback from BCP Builder Community on this topic – (this is the link to the original LinkedIn Post ): What will “the new normal” look lik

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Free webinar programmes in security, corporate risk and crisis management 

Crisis Response Journal

Dr David Rubens, one of CRJ’s Advisory Panel Members, has teamed up with Emirates Global Security to deliver a series of free webinar programmes for the Level 4 Award in Foundations of Security and Risk Management and Level 5 Award in Corporate Risk and C By David Rubens

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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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Coronavirus Response: The Peak-End Rule

Plan B Consulting

This week I discuss the psychological heuristic ‘peak-end rule’ and why this is important for planning your company’s recovery from COVID-19. Hope you have all had a nice bank holiday weekend at home! This week I wanted to look at how an incident is managed at the end, and whether it leaves a disproportionate impression on the successful management of the incident rather than taking into account the management across the entire incident.

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Business Continuity Planning for Small & Medium-Sized Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

Business Continuity Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Organizations. Last Updated on May 31, 2020 by Alex Jankovic. Reading Time: 4 minutes. Readers note: Please check our recently published high-level Business Continuity Planning guide. . In the “ An Introduction to Business Continuity Planning ” article, we outlined the main components of the Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program and introduced the basics of Business Continuity Planning (BCP). .

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Cybersecurity in a remote workplace: A joint effort

Behavior Group

The reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted every aspect of life across the globe and many companies now find themselves with fully remote workforces. Cybersecurity, remote workplace With so many employees now working from home, business networks have been opened to countless untrusted networks and – potentially – some unsanctioned devices. Naturally, the question… Continue reading.

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Why timely information sharing can help your recovery now!

Swan Island Network

Why timely information sharing can help your recovery now! Pete O'Dell. April 5, 2020. Share on facebook. Share on linkedin. Share on twitter. Share on email. Restarting the world economy after the COVID-19 crisis is going to be hard. We’ve never turned the world off like this before. (And kudos to every worker in health care, power, public safety, security, trucking, and everyone else who can’t work from home.

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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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SMB Cyber Summit

BCP Builder

SMB Cyber Summit I recently gave a presentation on Business Continuity for the SMB Cyber Summit. If you are interested in learning more about Cyber Security from a Small/ Medium Business perspective then take a look at this free online summit. In addition to the presentation, I have offered four E-Book’s for free download on the following topics: Business Continuity and Risk Management How to choose a Business Continuity Plan Template Pandemic Planning Guide Recovery Time Objective and Max

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Only ecology-based economies can avoid future catastrophe 

Crisis Response Journal

Much has been made of the brief respite in carbon emissions that coronavirus has given the world. But let’s not get too excited, says Fazlun Khalid, advisor to the UN on environment and faith.

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How Our Customers are Using AlertMedia During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Alert Media

The post How Our Customers are Using AlertMedia During the COVID-19 Pandemic appeared first on AlertMedia.

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One flew over the chicken’s nest

Oz's Business Continuity Blog

I started writing this blog a few weeks ago, when the level of Coronavirus-related selfishness and stupidity was nearing epic proportions. It turned into a fairly substantial rant, even by my standards, on such topics as the ridiculous level of […].

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Only a Quarter of Orgs ‘Focus’ on Cyber-Attack Prevention

Behavior Group

A new report from the Ponemon Institute has revealed that just 24% of organizations focus on optimizing cyber-attack prevention capabilities, despite 70% of security professionals believing that the ability to effectively prevent attacks strengthens security posture. Cyber-Attack Prevention, cybersecurity The research report, The Economic Value of Prevention in the Cybersecurity Lifecycle, sponsored by Deep Instinct,… Continue reading.

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Right-Size SLAs

VOX Veritas

When determining what solutions can satisfy the various recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RTO) in your organization, know that it's not a one size fits all approach.

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SMB Cyber Summit

BCP Builder

SMB Cyber Summit. I recently gave a presentation on Business Continuity for the SMB Cyber Summit. If you are interested in learning more about Cyber Security from a Small/ Medium Business perspective then take a look at this free online summit. In addition to the presentation, I have offered four E-Book’s for free download on the following topics: Business Continuity and Risk Management.

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How near misses influence disaster decision-making 

Crisis Response Journal

Narrowly avoiding a close call with a disaster might make people more likely to evacuate or prepare for the next one. Or it might not.

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What to Do?

Prism International

A blog by i-SIGMA CEO Bob Johnson discusses how i-SIGMA members can constructively use any downtime resulting from the current shutdown. Did you know the saying “When the going gets tough, the tough get going,” is attributed to a high school football coach in Corpus Christi Texas in 1953? I didn’t either. I would have guessed Winston Churchill. Anyway, it’s a good saying… and true.

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Preparing Your Business for Every Stage of a Pandemic

Alert Media

The post Preparing Your Business for Every Stage of a Pandemic appeared first on AlertMedia.

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Cybersecurity Experts Come Together to Fight Coronavirus-Related Cyberattacks

Behavior Group

An international group of nearly 400 volunteers with expertise in cybersecurity formed to fight cyberattacks related to the novel coronavirus. Fight Coronavirus-Related Cyberattacks<, cybersecurity/span> According to Reuters, the group is called the COVID-19 CTI League, for cyber threat intelligence, and spans more than 40 countries, including professionals in senior positions at major companies such as… Continue reading.

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Crisis Leadership

Business Resilience Decoded

Episode 44: "Crisis Leadership" with Vanessa Vaughn Mathews and Jon Seals. Business Resilience Decoded: www.drj.com/decoded/ twitter.com/BRDecoded Episode 44: "Crisis Leadership" with Vanessa Vaughn Mathews and Jon Seals. Business Resilience Decoded: www.drj.com/decoded/ twitter.

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COVID, Meet Cognitive Bias. CB, Meet COVID. You Two Have Much to Talk About!

Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

Flash ! COVID is in the news! How could it not be? Our world is changed. Face it, we are inundated with this global threat, and rightly so. This is the most transformational event in recent history. Nobody is immune from the effects, whether it be from the virus, the lock-downs and other attempts to “flatten the curve” and manage the spread, or the economic damage to personal finances.

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