BI and Analytics for Effective Disaster Recovery Management Lessons From the Bayou

2022 ◽  
pp. 197-217
Author(s):  
Gregory Smith ◽  
Thilini Ariyachandra
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Disaster Recovery ◽  
Quality Of Data ◽  
Record Keeping ◽  
Recovery Management ◽  
The City

Disaster recovery management requires agile decision making and action that can be supported through business intelligence (BI) and analytics. Yet, fundamental data issues such as challenges in data quality have continued to plague disaster recovery efforts leading to delays and high costs in disaster support. This chapter presents an example of these issues from the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, where Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc upon the city of New Orleans forcing the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to begin an unprecedented cleanup effort. The chapter brings to light the failings in record keeping during this disaster and highlight how a simple BI application can improve the accuracy and quality of data and save costs. It also highlights the ongoing data driven issues in disaster recovery management that FEMA continues to confront and the need for integrated centralized BI and analytics solutions extending to the supply chain that FEMA needs to become more nimble and effective when dealing with disasters.

Business Intelligence in the Bayou

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Smith ◽  
Thilini Ariyachandra ◽  
Mark Frolick
Keyword(s):  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Quality Of Data ◽  
Gulf Region ◽  
Record Keeping ◽  
Significant Damage ◽  
Debris Removal ◽  
Intelligence Application

During the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc on New Orleans. Significant damage to the Gulf region forced the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to begin an unprecedented cleanup effort. The removal and disposal of debris was not only a challenge for landfill capacity but also for the administration of drivers, trucks, and debris type. With the debris removal workforce and certified hauling vehicles changing rapidly, record keeping and fraud detection proved difficult. This paper introduces the results of a data driven manpower audit for one parish in the greater New Orleans area that consolidated records and reconciled multiple record keeping systems. The authors’ findings bring to light the failings in record keeping during this disaster and highlight how a simple business intelligence application can improve the accuracy and quality of data and save costs.

Business Intelligence in the Bayou

2012 ◽  
pp. 29-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Smith ◽  
Thilini Ariyachandra ◽  
Mark Frolick
Keyword(s):  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Quality Of Data ◽  
Gulf Region ◽  
Record Keeping ◽  
Significant Damage ◽  
Debris Removal ◽  
Intelligence Application

During the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc on New Orleans. Significant damage to the Gulf region forced the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to begin an unprecedented cleanup effort. The removal and disposal of debris was not only a challenge for landfill capacity but also for the administration of drivers, trucks, and debris type. With the debris removal workforce and certified hauling vehicles changing rapidly, record keeping and fraud detection proved difficult. This paper introduces the results of a data driven manpower audit for one parish in the greater New Orleans area that consolidated records and reconciled multiple record keeping systems. The authors’ findings bring to light the failings in record keeping during this disaster and highlight how a simple business intelligence application can improve the accuracy and quality of data and save costs.

New Orleans' Recovery Following Hurricane Katrina: Observations on Local Catastrophe Recovery Management

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 517-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie A. Johnson ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Disaster Recovery ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Local Management ◽  
Management Capacity ◽  
Local Recovery ◽  
Recovery Management ◽  
The U.S

Few local governments in the U.S. have faced the difficult task of managing catastrophic disaster recovery and there are equally few training guides geared toward improving local government's recovery management capacity. Our limited "toolkit"for local recovery management mostly reflects the learning from more moderate disasters. This paper reports on New Orleans' experiences in managing recovery from a truly catastrophic disaster. In particular, it describes two efforts: the 5-month Unified New Orleans Plan process, initiated in September 2006, and the city's Office of Recovery Management (now Office of Recovery Development and Administration), established in December 2006. It analyzes New Orleans' use of seven strategic recovery management practices that are proposed to enhance local management capacity and effectiveness following a disastrous event. Given the scale, complexity and multiple agencies involved in New Orleans recovery, this analysis is by no means exhaustive. It does, however, illustrate some of the areas where New Orleans' recovery management efforts have been effective as well as areas that could be strengthened.

Disaster, Inc.: Privatization and Post-Katrina Rebuilding in New Orleans

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 633-646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Fox Gotham
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Management ◽  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
Disaster Recovery ◽  
City Government ◽  
Private Firms ◽  
Disaster Victims ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Management Functions

This paper examines the problems and limitations of the privatization of federal and local disaster recovery policies and services following the Hurricane Katrina disaster. The paper discusses the significance of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 in accelerating efforts to devolve and privatize emergency management functions; the reorganization of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as a service purchaser and arranger; and the efforts by the New Orleans city government to contract out disaster recovery activities to private firms. I situate and explain these three developments in the context of recent trends toward the neoliberalization of state activities, including the privatization and devolution of policy implementation to private firms and non-governmental organizations. On both the federal and local levels, inadequate contract oversight and lack of cost controls provided opportunities for private contractors to siphon public resources and exploit government agencies to further their profiteering interests and accumulation agendas. This article demonstrates how the privatization of emergency management services and policy constitutes a new regulatory project in which the state's role has shifted away from providing aid to disaster victims and toward the management and coordination of services delivered by private contractors.

Comparing the Experiences of Parturient Women With Remifentanil Analgesia and Elective Cesarean Section and Providing Improver Strategies: A Sequential Explanatory Mixed Method Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
rana dousti ◽  
Sevil Hakimi ◽  
Hojjat Pourfathi ◽  
Roghayeh Nourizadeh ◽  
Niloufar sattarzadeh jahdi
Keyword(s):  
Cesarean Section ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Elective Cesarean Section ◽  
Mixed Method Study ◽  
Quality Of Data ◽  
Sequential Approach ◽  
Private Hospitals ◽  
Elective Cesarean ◽  
The City

Abstract Background Identifying methods that can effectively and safely improve the childbirth experience and are tailored to mothers' needs are of crucial importance. The current study aimed to compare experiences of parturient women with remifentanil analgesia and elective cesarean section and providing improver strategies for women living in the city of Tabriz, Iran.MethodsThis is a mixed-method study with an explanatory sequential approach. The first stage is quantitative and longitudinal. The study population is all parturient women who will give birth by elective C-section or vaginal painless delivery using remifentanil in private hospitals of the city of Tabriz in 2020-2021. All mothers are free to choose either method. Participants will be selected from all private hospitals using the convenience sampling technique proportioned to the number of eligible women in each hospital. Participants will be followed up to 30 days after delivery to complete the Edinburgh Postpartum Depression questionnaire. The second stage is a qualitative study aimed at exploring the perceptions of parturient women who had either elective C-section or painless delivery (using remifentanil), including factors related to labor experiences. Data will be collected by semi structured interviews with new mothers and important others (if needed).In the third stage, a mixed study will be performed to provide strategies for improving labor experiences. we will use an explanatory Sequential approach in order to increase the accuracy and quality of data and to use the findings to evaluate different methods of delivery.DiscussionBy comparing the experience of parturient women receiving Remifentanil analgesia and elective C-section, evidence-based improving strategies using a culturally sensitive approach can be provided. Presentation of the results obtained from this study using the mixed method may help in better understanding the issue. Also, the obtained results can be used to enhance the quality of midwifery care to be examined by health policymakers and planners.Trial registrationThis study is approved by the ethics committee of the Tabriz University of Medical Sciences (code: IR.TBZMED.REC.1399. 521). Besides, it's evaluated by relevant refers.

scholarly journals Student Affairs and Hurricane Katrina: Contextual Perspectives from Five Institutions of Higher Education in New Orleans

NASPA Journal ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan K Gardner ◽  
Kristy Miller ◽  
Marco J Barker ◽  
Jennifer Loftin ◽  
Marla Erwin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Student Affairs ◽  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
Public Versus Private

Fifteen student affairs administrators from five institutions of higher education in New Orleans were interviewed regarding their experiences immediately before and after Hurricane Katrina and how the crisis affected their work. Participants were chosen for their diversity among racial, gender, and institutional contexts. Analyses of the interviews resulted in four themes that describe the differences between how public versus private institutional cultures affected these administrators’ responses and the decision making that occurred in the wake of the storm. These themes include (a) decision making, (b) communication, (c) resources and limitations, and (d) student affairs status. Implications for policy, practice, and research are included.

scholarly journals Quality of data model for supporting mobile decision making

2007 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 1675-1683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Cowie ◽  
Frada Burstein
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Data Model ◽  
Quality Of Data

“Like We Lost Our Citizenship”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marguerite Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Vietnamese Americans ◽  
Educational Success ◽  
International Media ◽  
Vietnamese American ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Media ◽  
The City

This concluding chapter examines representations of Vietnamese Americans before and after Hurricane Katrina. The recuperation of American political and military might in the 1980s marked a transition in representations of Vietnamese Americans, as the New Orleans media began to focus on stories of Vietnamese American economic and educational “success.” Nevertheless, Vietnamese Americans lived more or less under the radar until about thirty years later, when they were once again thrust into the media limelight because of their quick return and recovery after Hurricane Katrina. Once potential objects of New Orleans exclusion, Vietnamese Americans now represented the city at its best, with national and international media outlets upholding the community's efforts as a story of hope and achievement in the aftermath of disaster.

Katrina Seven Years On: The Politics of Race and Recovery— Notes on a Roundtable Organized for the 2012 APSA Annual Meeting

2013 ◽  
Vol 46 (04) ◽  
pp. 748-752
Author(s):  
Christine L. Day
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Gulf Coast ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
Fair Housing ◽  
Cultural Revival ◽  
Politics Of Race ◽  
The City

AbstractAfter Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in 2005, flooding the city of New Orleans for several weeks after levees collapsed, the city struggled to recover and rebuild. Scholars and activists participating in the roundtable, “Katrina Seven Years On: The Politics of Race and Recovery,” at the 2012 APSA Annual Meeting in New Orleans, were to discuss recovery and racial justice in post-Katrina urban planning and rebuilding efforts, grassroots movements, job recovery, fair housing, and cultural revival. Although the 2012 meeting was canceled as Hurricane Isaac threatened New Orleans anew, panelists offered their observations and ideas to be summarized forPSreaders.

scholarly journals “Choosing to Stay”

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-139
Author(s):  
Anja Nadine Klopfer
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Intimate Knowledge ◽  
The City

Oral histories of the Hurricane Katrina experience abound in stories of conscious decisions to “ride out the storm.” My article explores the narrative of “choosing to stay” as an empowering narrative rooted in assertions of place-knowledge and traces its historical genealogy to the nineteenth century. I argue that claiming agency in New Orleans and articulating a sense of belonging and local identity through professed intimate knowledge of the local environment took shape as a strategy of resistance against dominant discourses of American progress after the Civil War. Ultimately, this counternarrative of connecting to place as “homeland,” drawing on knowledge arising from lived experience, defied the normative twist of modernization, simultaneously reformulating power relations within the city. “Choosing to stay” thus turns out to be a long-lasting narrative not only of disaster, but of place, belonging, and community; without understanding its historical layers, we cannot fully make sense of this particular Katrina narrative.

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