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Survey: Manufacturing Bosses Stepping Up Supply Chain Resilience as Pandemic Response

DRI Drive

As a response, CEOs in the manufacturing sector are taking active steps to mitigate their supply chain risks. The post Survey: Manufacturing Bosses Stepping Up Supply Chain Resilience as Pandemic Response appeared first on DRI Drive. Based on their responses, two […].

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Increase in Hazard Mitigation Funds

Recovery Diva

From the CRS: Recent Funding Increases for FEMA Hazard Mitigation Assistance. billion in Hazard Mitigation Grant Program funding will be made available to states, territories, and tribes (STTs) with major disaster declarations for the COVID-19 pandemic. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recently announced that $3.46

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Hazardous Conditions: Mitigation Planning and Pandemics

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of coordinated responses among emergency management and other stakeholders to implement an effective strategy for handling a long and complex disaster. Due to a number of factors , pandemics are more likely to occur in the future. To help achieve this level of preparation, each U.S.

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Business, Interrupted: Post-Pandemic Thinking Like a Risk Manager

Castellan

Lucht brings unique insight into the congruences between risk management and business continuity to shore up operational resilience, especially related to disaster recovery and response. At Carnegie Mellon, Lucht got a unique opportunity to lead its new enterprise risk management department with an emphasis on organizational resilience.

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BCM Basics: Business Continuity vs. Business Resilience 

MHA Consulting

The terms business continuity and business resilience are superficially similar and a world apart. The terms business continuity and business resilience are a distinction with a difference. This was the context in which the concept of business resilience was born. The likely answer is not that much.

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Why prioritizing and investing in resilience matters 

everbridge

In addition to those events, add in the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic and its clear these situations have the potential to directly affect the well-being of employees and operations, but is enough being done to mitigate or prevent their impact? What does it mean to be resilient?

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Attracting and Retaining Talent is an Emerging Concern for Resilience

Castellan

From the earliest days of the pandemic, supply chain issues were front of mind for many organizations. The report indicates that executives are also worried about their organization’s abilities to meet new and evolving employee expectations as work environments evolve from changes spurred by the pandemic. DOWNLOAD NOW.