North America
Latin America
Middle East
Africa
Europe
Asia
 North America
BCLF 2000- Business Continuity Planning - French, in Montreal, Canada, June 2-6.
GCLE 2000- Business Continuity for the Public Sector, in Salt Lake City, UT, June 16-20.
BCLE 2000- Business Continuity Planning, in Washington, DC, June 23-27.
BCP 501- Business Continuity Planning Review, in San Francisco, CA, June 25-27.
BCP 601- Masters Case Study Review, in Toronto, Canada, June 25-27.
BCP 501- Business Continuity Planning Review, in Toronto, Canada, June 25-27.
BCLE 2000- Business Continuity Planning, in Toronto, Canada, July 7-11.
BCP 501- Business Continuity Planning Review, in Dallas, TX, July 14-16.
BCLE 2000- Business Continuity Planning, in Philadelphia, PA, July 14-18.
BCLE 2000- Business Continuity Planning, in Toronto, Canada, July 14-18.
BCLE 2000- Business Continuity Planning, in New York, NY, July 21-25.
BCLE AUD- Business Continuity Planning for Auditors, in Winnipeg, Canada, July 21-25.
BCP 601- Business Continuity Planning Review, in Seattle, WA, July 23-24.
Latin America
BCLS 2000- Business Continuity Planning - Spanish, in Mexico City, Mexico, May 27-31.
BCP 601- Masters Case Study Review, in Mexico City, Mexico, June 2-4.
BCLS 2000- Business Continuity Planning - Spanish, in Quito, Ecuador, June 9-13.
BCP 2000- Business Continuity Planning - Portuguese, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 26-31.
Middle East and Africa
BCLE 2000- Business Continuity Planning, in
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, June 8-12.
BCLE 2000
- Business Continuity Planning, in Lagos, Nigeria, June 16-20.
Tel Aviv, Israel, June 29 - July 3.
BCLE 2000- Business Continuity Planning, in Lagos, Nigeria, July 7-14.
BCP 501- Business Continuity Planning Review, in Lagos, Nigeria, July 28-31.
Europe
Business Continuity Planning - French, in
Paris, France, June
9-13.
BCLE AUD- Business Continuity Planning for Auditors, in Paris, France, June 16-20.
BCLS- Business Continuity Planning - Spanish, in Madrid, Spain, July 7-11.
Asia
BCLC 2000- Business Continuity Planning - Chinese, in Beijing, China, June 9-13.
BCPJ 501- Business Continuity Planning Review - Japanese, in Tokyo, Japan, June 13-15.
BCLE 2000- Business Continuity Planning, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 16-20.
BCLC 2000- Business Continuity Planning - Chinese, in Beijing, China, July 7-11.
BCLE 2000- Business Continuity Planning, in Singapore, Singapore, July 14-18.
BCLE 2000- Business Continuity Planning, in Manila, Philippines, July 14-18.
BCLJ 2000- Business Continuity Planning - Japanese, in Tokyo, Japan, July 21-25.
BCLC 2000- Business Continuity Planning - Chinese, in Beijing, China, July 21-25.
BCLE 2000- Business Continuity Planning, in Bankok, Thailand, July 21-25.
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Congratulations to All DRI2014 Awards of Excellence Winners!
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 DRI2014 attendees arrived in their best formal wear to Tuesday evening's Gala Dinner and International Awards of Excellence ceremony, where the best and brightest in business continuity were honored! We sure do clean up good...and two organizations, in particular, cleaned up on awards (read on to find out which!).
Here is the complete list of this year's winners, who went home with lovely (and surprisingly heavy!) trophies recognizing their achievements:
Strategy & Initiative
Continuity Awareness Award: Randy Van Hooser, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
Response and Recovery of the Year: Insurance Auto Auctions, Inc.
Strategy of the year: Rajiv Mehta, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
Service Providers
Planning Software of the Year: Resilience One
IT Infrastructure Award: Amdocs
Service Provider of the Year: Rentsys Recovery Services
People
Team of the Year: NYC Office of Emergency Management COOP Team
Consultant of the Year: Henry Arocha, Computer Sciences Corporations (CSC)
Program Leader of the Year (Public Sector): Ira Tannenbaum, NYC Office of Emergency Management
Program Leader of the Year (Private Sector): Chand Basha, Hewlett Packard Global Business Services
Lifetime Achievement Award: Tonya T. York, McKesson
Congratulations to all of this year's winners. And to everyone else, get ready -- next year it could be you!
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DRI2015: Where Are We Going Next?
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At the risk of bragging: the DRI2014 Conference is officially an unqualified success, thoroughly enjoyed by everyone lucky enough to attend!
But there's no time to rest on our laurels -- it's time to think ahead, to DRI2015. So where will we be next year? Here's a hint:
That's the Alamo in the moonlight, and it's just one of the many things you'll get to see and experience when you join us in San Antonio, TX, March 1-4, 2015!
While we get to work planning another awesome and informative event, you can get started planning your trip with the help of the San Antonio Visitor's Bureau by clicking here. We'll see you there!
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Inside the CDC's Strategic National Stockpile
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 "I've got a pretty weird job," Greg Burel, Director of the Division of Strategic National Stockpile for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told DRI2014 attendees in the CDC's home city, Atlanta. " I sit there every day, planning to do something I never, ever want to do. The day I have to do what we've prepared for will be a very bad day!"
What Burel does is to plan for emergency scenarios that would require the use of the stockpile -- the U.S. national repository of antibiotics, vaccines, chemical antidotes, antitoxins, and other critical medical equipment and supplies. In other words, Burel's job involves a lot of thinking about pandemics, bioterrorism, and other not-so-rosy subjects.
Fortunately, this also involves a lot of preparation. The most major benchmark test: a simulation of an aerosolized anthrax attack on New York City, to successfully get medicine to millions of people within 48 hours. When it generally takes the first 36 hours to recognize a diagnosis, response time is at a razor-thin margin that the CDC, along with local emergency response coordinators, have to be prepared for.
"As emergency management pros, you should be interested," Burel told the audience. "If something happens in an area where your business is, you have a responsibility to protect your employees and the community." He also recommended talking to state and local health officials. "They want to hear if you have capabilities that can help, like an organic logistics or warehousing capability."
This is especially welcome from organizations with a large employee base, which can work with state and local health agencies to become a "closed point of dispensing," a place people in the community could go to in the event that emergency medicine was needed (the example Burel used was recent meningitis outbreaks on college campuses).
If you'd like to get more involved with the Strategic National Stockpile, you can read more about it here, and contact Greg Burel via email at wbu1@cdc.gov.
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This Week in Definitions: DRI's Glossary Moves Forward -- and 'Selfie' is Dictionary-Official
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 One of Tuesday's featured DRI2014 sessions: "Something's Gotta Give: Defining the Strategic Objective of DRI's BCM Glssary for Certified Professionals," committee members Chloe Demrovsky and Bobby Williams talked with attendees about the creation of the glossary (available here, if you haven't downloaded it yet!).
Among the issues touched on:
- What would it take for companies to begin adopting the glossary for internal use (as Goodyear already has)?
- What else should go in there?
- How should the committee process feedback?
- What's next for the glossary? (Progress is already underway on translating it into other languages.)
As it happens, definitions were also on Mirriam-Webster's mind this week, as the dictionary company just announced its newest batch of additions to the next Collegiate edition, including:
- Selfie
- Hashtag
- Crowdfunding
- Steampunk
- Catfish (setting a fake social network profile -- Google "Manti Te'o's Girlfriend" if you're still unclear)
- Turducken
- Fracking, and
- Yooper, a regional nickname that probably makes more sense to our Michigan DRI office.
Believe it or not that's just a sample of the more than 150 words added this year. Click here to learn more!
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Future Logistics: 5 Trends to Watch (and One You Can Probably Ignore)
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 Scot Phelps used his Tuesday DRI2014 session to illuminate the future of logistics and why supply chain and risk management professionals should pay attention.
Among the trends Phelps identified:
Transportation: Logistics are becoming more efficient, hence thinner, but could this be a risk to supply chain? Phelps points UPS's practice of eliminating left turns from its driving routes to improve efficiency, going from 110 to 140 packages delivered each day, and other algorithm-based strategies.
Another thing to think about: while the spotlight has been on cable and Internet companies collecting customer data, the transportation companies know a lot about their customers by their orders as well.
Auto Manufacturing: To meet standards both in the U.S. and internationally, Volkswagon varies the top of the car depending on area, while the drive train and engine remains consistent. They take the Golf with the single global platform for all lines. By 2018-20, there will be 5 million cars made with the same platform.
It's a smart way to mass-produce -- but it also means if there's a problem with supply chain, nothing can get made. For instance, a fire in Germany once burned up a polymer that every company used, halting production for weeks!
Makerbots: 3D printers are slowly but surely coming down in price -- what was once $20,000 can now be bought for about $1,500, pretty affordable for a company that wanted an alternative to their supply chain for small plastic parts. If you're in New York or Los Angeles, you can head to Staples to try one out!
Customization: Sneaker companies like Timbaland and Adidas are now giving customers a number of customization options -- picking their own colors, uppers, laces, soles, etc. One is even offering to scan pictures the customer provides onto the shoe! Putting parts together isn't much more complicated, and shipping is the only premium cost. What happens when we start customizing everything, as part of regular production process? In short, it can help align products to your organization's needs.
Onshoring: For 10 years we were moving to cheaper places of production, but in practice, in most places that have cheap labor, the skillset is lacking. As a general rule, U.S. labor is more expensive, but also faster and with fewer production problems. There are also transportation costs and issues to consider. If you're a retail company but can't deliver a product because boat is stuck at port, that's a problem! Onshoring shortens the transportation chain and amount of stops needed.
But what about the future? One trend you probably won't have to pay much attention to, Phelps says, is drones. Between travel distance and battery life, "they're just not effective. That's just silliness." So drone-delivered tacos will just have to remain a fantasy, sadly.
On the other hand, the efficiency trend of the future may be in smarter packaging. Consistent packaging means more can be fitted onto a truck economically. There are already signs this will become more of an issue -- such as FedEx's decision to bill based on total mass, rather than only weight (think about how that would affect the cost of shipping, say, a big box of pillows).
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