The BCI will be hosting the first annual BCI Awards – North America exclusively at DRJ Spring World 2012. Open to all BCM professionals regardless of professional membership and/or certification, the BCI Awards – North America will immediately be recognized as the de-facto standard for business continuity professional recognition of achievement.

Continue reading Business Continuity Institute (BCI) Announces Their Call For Nominations for the Inaugural BCI Awards – North America

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BC Management’s annual Business Continuity Management Study of business continuity compensation and program management data research is now available.

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Emergency management is a growing profession and is projected to continue growing at a rate of 20 percent or more, according to O*NET OnLine (created for the U.S. Department of Labor), which rates emergency management specialists as a “bright outlook occupation” in the labor market.

Continue reading What You Should Know About Emergency Management Degrees

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Many organizations struggle with hiring consultants. Giselle Parry shares her expertise on when to hire an individual or firm and the best way to manage the consultant team when it’s been hired.

See The Consultant Conundrum: When to Hire One and Why, by Eric Holdeman for Emergency Management.

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Quarter till four. Sleeping, gently dreaming. Suddenly: lights flashing, bells ringing, pagers beeping, a metallic voice barks instructions. Must respond. Duty. Comrades. Boots. Suspenders. Rollup door. Engine start, all aboard, lights, release the brakes … Continue reading Stress makes even the most well-trained emergency managers stupid

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What does it really mean for an individual to be “certified” in business continuity?

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You’re packing for vacation and your spouse turns to you and says, “You’re not taking your BlackBerry with you — are you?” How should you respond?

Continue reading The Emergency Manager’s Dilemma: Should You Take Your BlackBerry on Vacation?

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The Singapore Computer Society (SCS) has launched its new ‘Certification in IT Business Continuity Management’ (CITBCM).

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SunGard announced that Andrew Stern has been appointed chief executive officer of SunGard Availability Services.

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Many of us have had to deal with mentally unstable people at different times and  at different levels of the corporate world, including those at executive levels tasked with making significant decisions for their organizations.

Continue reading Dealing with Mentally Unstable Managers

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A distance-learning MSc in health incident command at ­Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) is the first degree-level course specifically for those in the health services who will necessarily during their career find themselves in ultimate charge of decisions that affect how many people live and how many die

Though there is basic training for all emergency services staff in how to deal with the initial stages of a disaster on the ground, the subsequent hours of decision-making in the strategic and tactical management of catastrophes that erupt, by definition, out of nowhere, can make an enormous difference to the scale of the tragedy that ensues.

The course has been designed so academic rigor is informed by students’ personal experience. “We’re looking to tease out the reasoning behind people’s decision-making, both in preparing for a major incident and when one hits,” says Dave Whitmore, tutor on this new program.

Decisions made at the scene can greatly affect the scale of a tragedy. Photograph: Jaime Turner /Rex

See MSc launched in how to take command in a major emergency, by Louise Tickle for The Guardian.

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