At this year’s GovFresh awards, CiviGuard won the Best Emergency Management App category for our Irene “Should I Evacuate?” application.
Given the excellence of the other entries and of the judging panel, it was a very fulfilling way to end an eventful and progressive 2011 for CiviGuard.
As a company based out of NY, it gives us immense pride to see NYC win City of the Year. Reinventing NYC.gov is a challenging mission with many competing interests. The DoITT Digital team has exploded out of the gate, we wish them only the best in 2012!
We are incredibly excited about the opportunity 2012 presents. Our 2.0 platform is going to make organizational continuity more accessible to all.
We wish you & yours a very Happy and Safe New Year!
Planning is good. Adaptation is better.
Fascinating business continuity white-paper (PDF) released by Renesas Electronics Corporation in Japan.
They were significantly affected by the events in Fukushima, key quote:
However, this disaster, which struck such a vast region, revealed our BCPs were not thorough enough. In other words, due to the significant scale of the disaster, the assumptions that we used to establish our BCPs failed to include ancillary factors that might prevent stable production, such as the possible impact of disasters on our suppliers, the widening of nuclear evacuation zones, and the possibility of rolling blackouts and electricity shortage.
And owing to the shortcomings of our BCPs, we caused significant impact on the production plans of our customers. We take this matter very seriously. One of the most important lessons we learned through the disaster was that we must establish a flexible structure to enable efficient information sharing and alternate procurement and production, not only for the Renesas Electronics Group, but also for the entire supply chain.
