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The Humanitarian Disaster Relief

Best Practices Toolkit DVD is out of stock.

Sessions from the 2005 Effective Disruption Management Seminar have been made available as podcasts:

 

Ludo Oelrich - A Public-Private Partnership that Works

Ludo Oelrich is the Director of "Moving the World" a partnership between TNT and World Food Program. Speaking at the Effective Disruption Management Seminar convened by the Stanford Graduate School of Business last September he explains how the benefits of this association play out both ways.

Rickard and Olson - Partnerships for Disaster Relief

Jon Olson is the Global Transportation and Logistics Outsourcing Manager at Intel. Together with John Rickard, Director of Logistics at International Rescue Committee, he explains how the supply chain knowledge and frameworks developed in a corporate environment can go a long way when applied to the logistic issues faced by humanitarian disaster relief agencies. They spoke at the Effective Disruption Management Seminar organized by the Stanford Graduate School of Business in September 2005.

Gail Neudorf - Disaster Relief Challenges

Gail Neudorf is the Emergency Coordinator for CARE Canada. During the Effective Disruption Management Seminar convened by the Stanford Graduate School of Business in September 2005, she explains some of the challenges and issues faced by humanitarian disaster relief operations.

Adele Martz - Improving GM’s Risk Profile

Adele Martz, Director of Business Continuity Planning and Crisis Support at General Motors, explains how risk management puts GM at a competitive advantage. She was a speaker at the Effective Disruption Management Seminar convened last September by Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Randy Martin - Speed and Agility versus Cost

Randy Martin is the director of Global Emergency Operations at Mercy Corps USA and has been in the business of humanitarian disaster relief for 25 years. At the Effective Disruption Management Seminar, convened by Stanford Graduate School of Business last September, Martin shares some of the lessons he has learned on the front lines and investigates potential collaborations to enhance disaster relief operations.

Leslie Lamb - Managing Risk in an Uncertain World

In this program Leslie Lamb, Risk Manager at Cisco shares her company's approach to risk management. She spoke at the Effective Disruption Management Seminar which gathered on the Stanford Campus last September some of the main actors in humanitarian disaster relief operations.

Lynn Fritz - Using Supply Chain Innovations to Save Lives

A few days after hurricane Katrina hit, Lynn Fritz, Director General of Fritz Institute, opened the Effective Disruption Management Seminar convened by the Stanford Graduate School of Business and shared his vision for the enhancement of disaster relief operations to a floor of highly engaged humanitarian disaster relief actors.Check out the free DVD offer for humanitarian disaster relief organizations.

In an effort to make valuable information from the 2005 Effective Disruption Management Seminar available to those actively engaged in social innovation throughout the world, the Global Supply Chain Management Forum and Center for Social Innovation at Stanford Graduate School of Business joined efforts to produced the Humanitarian Relief Logistics Best Practices Toolkit. The DVD covers the importance of agility, proactive planning, partnerships, local capacity building, and performance management.