building a culture of resilience (President 2011, 4). The DHS has shown progress in building security partners through the department’s efforts in information sharing efficiency as demonstrated in fusion centers. Building a culture of resilience entails the DHS mission of understanding and reducing the vulnerability of the nation, and mitigating the damage from an attack. Evaluating the DHS’s progress in this task is difficult, because it is uncertain how much of the nation’s resilience is inherent, and
disruptions in their supply networks, and in response they built resilience and security into the current supply network. Also these firms revisited their existing supply network design, and actively redesigned their supply networks for resilience through a combination of flexibility and redundancy initiatives. Often, the firms elected to apply these in a ‘layered’ fashion to create a system comprised of layers of security and resilience. Then in developing plans to respond, the progressive firms often
unlock this complex problem? A Review of the Literature: Darmoul et al. (2014) report provides a novel solution to disturbances in transportation systems using artificial immune systems. It demonstrates that biological solutions help to develop principles for detection strategies, formation of reactive solutions, supervised learning and memory utilization from previous experiences. The report reviews the current transport control systems; the geographic information system (GIS), Global Positioning
Five -Factor model According to the five-factor model (or Big Five), personality can be classified into five distinct dimensions. These dimensions include extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience (Forsyth, 2014). When multiple individuals come together to work in a group, the personalities of each person may either help or hinder the group in reaching its’ goals. For instance, the Big Five factor of agreeableness is indicative of an individual being
Supply Chain Resilience: A Risk Intelligent approach to managing global supply chains Contents Contents 1 3 5 6 7 9 Preface A more complete view of supply chain risk? The four pillars of a resilient supply chain Resilience in action Building a resilient supply chain Ready. Set. Go. 9 Endnotes 10 Contacts 11 Nine fundamental principles of a Risk Intelligence program Preface This publication is the 25th whitepaper in Deloitte’s series on Risk Intelligence. The concepts and viewpoints
analysis of the resilience of Native American tribes in the US. In this reaction paper, I would like to address one central question – are Native American tribes in the US adequately resilient to disaster risk? As we have discussed, in the disaster risk context, resilience can be broadly defined as “the ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from, and more successfully adapt to adverse events.” However, according to Farber, the concepts of vulnerability and resilience are complexly intertwined
the course of their career in the Army. This paper will exam how positive psychology and master resilience training can benefit Soldiers on profile undergoing the
Executive Core Qualifications There five executive core qualifications that define the competencies needed to build a federal corporate culture that drive for results, serve customers, and build successful teams and coalitions within and outside an organization. These include leading change, leading people, results driven, business acumen, and building coalitions (OPM, 2006). Leading change involves an individual's ability to bring about strategic change within and outside an organization to
Unity Through Equality In late June of 2016, Vice President Joe Biden had an official visit to his ancestral country, Ireland. Biden planned his five-day visit to meet with Prime Minister Enda Kenny to discuss Irish-American relations, and to address the Irish people about the value of global inclusiveness. Throughout his speech, Biden uses different rhetorical strategies that aim to unify the Irish and American people. Biden’s arrival to Ireland occurs at a time when immigration is heavily debated
In today’s military, lessons are learned daily through the use of AAR’s and breifbacks, however in order to excel in the art of command, particular attention should be paid to the lessons taught in Module C130 Leader Development and Assessment. The topics taught in the Leader Development and Assessment Module are critical to the success of a Field Grade Officer in accomplishment of mission and personnel management. Long gone are the days of “Do it because I say so” or redoing work multiple times