Before implementing Send Word Now’s award winning Alerting Service in 2011, The Salvation Army Greater New York (GNY) Division relied on manual call trees for emergency notification. Today, because of its fast speed and ease [...]
Our mission at the Center for Global Enterprise (CGE) is to advance and make globally accessible contemporary management learning. Toward that goal, we have sought to offer innovative applied learning models to business leaders from [...]
The Value of Business Continuity Management Software Business Continuity Management (BCM) has matured quite a bit since being spawned out of Disaster Recovery in the mid 90’s. It is no longer what is Business Continuity [...]
In 2011, tornadoes ripped through the southeastern United States. In 2012, there were 19 tropical storms and hurricanes, five of them having a direct impact on the U.S. In these two years alone, natural disasters [...]
If your disaster preparedness or continuity plan includes a base camp, here are some key considerations as you develop your plan. It is far better to think through these issues well in advance than to [...]
If a large-scale disaster strikes your area, how long can you afford to wait before you call in the professionals to help? To homeowners and business owners who have endured a major disaster, every hour [...]
Each year disasters cause multitudes across the U.S. to lose their homes and personal property. Whether it’s a wide scale disaster like a tornado, wildfire, or hurricane, or a smaller event like a house fire [...]
Challenge St. Margaret’s Daughters’ Home, located in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward, was virtually destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. While all residents were safely evacuated before the storm hit, the building was declared [...]
It is likely that every first responder has been confronted with the need to establish and maintain communication links when local terrestrial or cellular networks are unavailable, insufficient or damaged. In those situations, satellite systems [...]