Black Swan Emergency Management Consultants

"If everything is going according to plan take a hard look around...you have missed something important." Payne's Theorem

2011 was the Year of the Billion Dollar Disaster- with 12 events each exceeding costs of $1 billion dollars or more. There were more that 90 federally declared disasters affecting every region of the U.S.

A black swan event is one that has a major impact on the course of history, is unexpected, and despite being nearly impossible to predict, is deemed predictable with the benefit of hindsight.  This theory was popularized by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book  "The Black Swan".                                                          

At Black Swan Emergency Management our mission is to assist our clients in coordinating and integrating all activities necessary to build resiliency into the fabric of their organizations. We develop relationships with our clients to understand their specific needs, so that we may develop individualized, comprehensive, and dynamic solution based programs. These plans and  programs can then be implemented to help improve our client’s capability to prepare, respond and recover from disruptive events; whether they are natural disasters, acts of terrorism, manmade, or technological events.

The estimated economic damages from the multitude of disasters in 2011  have exceeded 45 billion dollars.

Emergency Management Magazine Jan/Feb 2012

 

Up to 40% of businesses affected by a natural or human-caused disaster never reopen.

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