This paper compares and contrasts the Canadian and Chinese national strategies for digital records, with the intention to generate best practices and/or lessons learned that are instructive and applicable to a wider archival community, irrespective of the existence of certain political and administrative differences. Keyword: digital records; digital records management; national strategy; Canad...

With the growth in length and breadth of extended supply chains, more companies are employing risk management techniques and resilience planning to deal with burgeoning and costly supply chain disruptions. As companies can learn from humanitarian groups, so can humanitarian groups learn from industry how to respond, recover, and prepare for these disruptive events. This paper looks at industry ...

Airlines as Baseball Players: Another Approach for Evaluating an Equal-Safety Hypothesis David Czerwinski, Arnold Barnett Business leaders routinely seek to apply best practices, but they want clear evidence that a particular practice is superior to available alternatives. However, in the context of safety among entities like airlines or chemical plants, major disasters are extremely rare, whic...

ion of the planning cycle of the best practice model Processes that connect between scales

Observations made while working with industry and government organisations have shown a number of issues with the implementation of current risk management best practice. A major issue in many cases is the lack of pragmatism associated with the risk management process and the need for a more formalised approach to risk management. In this paper, the authors propose and validate a multi-view app...

Current concerns over reforming engineering education have focused attention on helping students develop skills and an adaptive expertise. Phenomenological guidelines for instruction along these lines can be understood as arising out of an emerging theory of thinking and learning built on results in the neural, cognitive, and behavioral sciences. We outline this framework and consider some of i...

E-learning tools can be found on an occasional basis in higher education, in particular regarding social sciences. This paper concentrates on envisaged future developments of E-Modules, the innovative elearning platform on European Union matters created by the Institute for European Studies, which is an autonomous department of the Free University Brussels. First, it provides an overview of the...