We have just released Preparing for Disaster Management Proposal. It is accessible within the Strategy Control Room, Advanced Level.
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The new SCRA release is an unusual proposal, but it's very timely, given all the fires and natural disasters around California and so on. It is a proposal that we helped the client put together. He works at a very large professional services firm, and they are doing projects for one of the large utilities operating across the United States. That utility has decided that they need a dedicated Disaster Response Center and the capability to be able to forecast disasters as and when they unfold rather than responding to them after the fact.
The proposal talks about the entire approach of how the entire system will be put together: the infrastructure, the methodology, and the processes to be able to be more proactive when these things happen. Because what the utility is predicting is that these are not once-off events. They're always going to be happening, and they may be happening in other parts of the world as well.
So, they're building a kind of a pilot center for the Western Hemisphere, the Western region, as they call it, and this is the ability to predict disasters before they happen, be proactive in getting the system out there. But also, if a disaster happens that they couldn't stop, could they have a better response to it? And it's about building a major data center and an early warning forecasting system so that they can have more capabilities on the ground.
The other big decision that this proposal looks at is how to bring firefighting capabilities under the control of the utility. Previously, all they would do was work on clearing brushes and removing trees and branches around the power lines, but they've made the decision to build their own firefighting capability, and that will be phase two of this project.
The proposal is very relevant because many companies around the world are dealing with this, and it's something that will be very valuable to members. It's not just about this problem. It's how you plan and have a disaster management response to any type of major problem you're likely to experience.
HOW TO FIND PREPARING FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT PROPOSAL:
1. Log in to The Strategy Control Room, Advanced Level, membership area.
2. See the "PROPOSALS" dropdown.
3. Select "35 Preparing for Disaster Management"
4. Preparing for Disaster Management proposal consists of 81 slides.
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