Let's explore design thinking and how it intersects with Business Continuity. Thinking in this way helps leaders better prepare for disruptions in business operations. It may not be the big one that causes your organization to fail, and it may just be a series of issues that you may never think get you. Links Web: https://titanhst.com/ LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3KgRvv6 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/titanhst/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TitanHST Facebook:...

Today, the concepts of cybersecurity training, cyber drills, and cyber polygon do not have clear boundaries. Historically, cybersecurity exercises were paper, command, and staff exercises. Such events, which bring together representatives of different departments, were aimed at identifying individual skills. However, today cybersecurity drills are primarily needed to train teamwork. Links Web: https://titanhst.com/ LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3KgRvv6 Instagram:...

The Culture of Preparedness starts with you. Today we are exploring how a business continuity plan and a disaster recovery strategy detail immediate, effective actions to be taken should a disaster strike. To truly be ready you need a current, detailed, and flexible plan that will enable your organization to survive – and thrive. Web: https://titanhst.com/ LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3KgRvv6 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/titanhst/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TitanHST Facebook:...

The Culture of Preparedness starts with you. Today we are exploring how a business continuity plan and a disaster recovery strategy detail immediate, effective actions to be taken should a disaster strike. To truly be ready you need a current, detailed, and flexible plan that will enable your organization to survive – and thrive. Web: https://titanhst.com/ LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3KgRvv6 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/titanhst/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TitanHST Facebook:...

Alyssa’s law requires all public and charter schools to implement an advanced panic alarm system to allow law enforcement to react immediately in the event of a critical emergency. These solutions make it possible for officers to get to the scene quickly, take down the perpetrator, and minimize the number of lives lost. Links Web: https://titanhst.com/ LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3KgRvv6 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/titanhst/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TitanHST Facebook:...

When you think of Complex Problems, sometimes trying the simple solution works. However, sometimes simple is not the right answer. Let's see how we can balance the complex solution with the quick fix (that never works). Links Web: https://titanhst.com/ LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3KgRvv6 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/titanhst/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TitanHST Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TitanHST/ Youtube: https://bit.ly/3mePJyG

Most Organizations are looking to build an enduring entity. Leveraging aspects of business continuity and business resilience principles enables organizations to mitigate risks more effectively and allow continuous operations. The goal of improving an organization's ability to respond to disruptions and strengthening its long-term resilience is the first step in becoming antifragile. Web: https://titanhst.com/ LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3KgRvv6 Instagram:...

Tabletop exercises are a tool that you need to add to your organization. It is not critical to have the "right" scenario. It could be anything that could harm your organization's reputation and its ability to function, from a natural disaster or accident to human-caused crises such as a security breach, terror attack, or internally perpetrated wrongdoing. The tabletop exercise is the most efficient way to test and improve the effectiveness of your organization's crisis plan and your crisis...

Whether it's the threat of a flood, storm, earthquake, pandemic, or human-caused hazard, building the resilience of your business to disasters is becoming just as important as managing your reputation or testing your products before launching them. Strong economic, financial, legal, reputational, and regulatory reasons exist. Let's explore why businesses need to reduce their exposure to disasters seriously. Web: https://titanhst.com/ LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3KgRvv6 Instagram:...

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Complexity bias is a logical fallacy that leads us to give undue credence to complex concepts. Faced with two competing ideas, we are likely to choose the most complex one. As a result, when we need to solve a problem, we may ignore simple solutions — thinking “that will never work” — and instead favor complex ones. Links Web: https://titanhst.com/ LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3KgRvv6 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/titanhst/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TitanHST Facebook:...

Active shooting scenarios focus on the police response, and the larger emergency management role during these complex incidents is often overlooked. However, they are multi-week, multi-jurisdictional incidents requiring command & control, interoperable communications, and a host of other services. Web: https://titanhst.com/ LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3KgRvv6 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/titanhst/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TitanHST Facebook:...

Acts of Violence can take many forms, and it takes a tremendous toll on everyone involved. Results of an act of violence are increased absenteeism and turnover, high-stress levels, decreased productivity, increased Workers' Compensation claims, damaged morale, costs involved with post-incident counseling, and much more. We have talked about prevention. Now, let’s discuss leading during the recovery. Links Web: https://titanhst.com/ LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3KgRvv6 Instagram:...

For protection during a disaster, an effective localization and positioning system is a vital disaster. With the use of mobile devices, locating individuals during a disaster is becoming easy with Cell/RIF/Bluetooth. The mobile device-enabled Augmented Reality(AR) in conjunction with the Internet of Things(IoT) is changing the face of disaster management. AR and IoT technologies are active topics in emergency and disaster response. They both are powerful technologies in the era of...

As organizations look at ways to address the most significant challenges, from natural disasters to sustainability, they need to invest in the IoT solutions embedded with advanced analytics to better prepare for and react to these incidents. With connected sensors and long-range, low-power IoT technology leveraging artificial intelligence, organizations can harness real-time data and advanced analytics to deliver meaningful results. The combination of IoT-enabled analytics, devices, and...

The new internet may soon be coming to a home near you in the form of Mesh Networking. So what is Mesh Networking and how does it differ from traditional networks…and how will it change disaster communications? Links Web: https://titanhst.com/ LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3KgRvv6 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/titanhst/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TitanHST Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TitanHST/ Youtube: https://bit.ly/3mePJyG

The news of two active shooter events one in Buffalo NY and the other at a church in Laguna Woods CA, and mass notification communications mistake by a major city in SoCal are driving the conversation in emergency management. Do you have a plan on how to communicate with your team, your clients, and stakeholders? Now is the time to take a look at your plan, test it and revise it if you need to. Join BCT as we explore these events and more. Links Web: https://titanhst.com/ LinkedIn:...

What do you do after your emergency procedures and evacuation plans are complete? It is time to exercise them. Your team must know what to do in an emergency at work and home. And How you are going to communicate with them. A vital part of this training is a fire drill, which puts the emergency procedures into practice to see if they work. If they don’t work, and there is a fire, it can have devastating consequences. Fire drills are often perceived as an unnecessary nuisance and disturbance,...

The Southwest has moved from fire season to a 365-day threat of wildland fires. Why do you need a plan? Roughly 60,000 wildfires burn 8 million acres in the U.S. each year, according to the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC). Wildland fires are more destructive and deadly than ever. Although we see fires in the west the most, every state has a wildland fire threat. Is your organization ready? Web: https://titanhst.com/ LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3KgRvv6 Instagram:...

A NASCAR PIT CREW COMES TO MIND when I think of a high-performing team. Each team member has a critical role to play, and they are specialized, hyper-focuses, and ready to achieve outstanding results under pressure. How can you achieve the outcomes your team can give you? Quality performance management empowers collaborative workspaces and develops result-orientated teams. Links Web: https://titanhst.com/ LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3KgRvv6 Instagram:...

When we think of Business Continuity Planning, we ought to have a plan for a power outage; however, have you ever thought about a power shortage? As we see, the price of fuel impacts the supply chain. Can the drought in the American Southwest impact the electrical grid? Join Todd as he looks at how hydroelectrical generation stations have some concerns. Web: https://titanhst.com/ LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3KgRvv6 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/titanhst/ Twitter:...

Regardless of industry, the planning/decision-making function should have one goal: to reduce the latency between analysis, decision, and direction change. Organizations must look at their data holistically and have a culture that allows them to communicate any new inputs across the organization to make that turn instantly. In today's uncertain world, the supply chain can change at a moment's notice. It is the most agile company that will soar. Web: https://titanhst.com/ LinkedIn:...

We are witnessing the war in Ukraine and the humanitarian crisis that it has brought. In addition, the conflict is hurting the economy; oil prices have gone up, food prices worldwide are on the rise, and the President of the United States told the nation to prepare for food shortages. We see the eroding of the value of incomes while disrupting trade and supply chains. Here are the 3 key takeaways: 1) Support needed for refugees 2) Weaker economic growth, higher inflation 3) Energy &...

The war in Europe has organizations discussing cybersecurity in the C-Suite and boardrooms worldwide. Today we need to approach cybersecurity as part of the system. Cybersecurity is an intrinsic risk management essential that must be built into the core of every employee, product, and service. Companies need to implant cybersecurity by design and as a default into their DNA. Join Todd De Voe and Brian Barnier as they explore how to use design and systems thinking to make business resilience...

The event of a cyberattack is now increasingly likely in today's environment. However, business operations matter more than data. Your organization needs to place your stakeholders first. Your customers rely on your company to deliver the services and products. Cyberattacks not only implicate customer data but, more importantly, disrupt service delivery. What is your plan to keep operations going even when the internet is down? White House warns of "evolving intelligence," suggesting Russia...