Business Process Management Shows Solid Potential for Disaster Preparedness and Response

This Government Insights Perspective examines the potential and actual applications of business process management for disaster recovery, emergency management, and continuity of operations. The same solutions that are used to automate and rationalize, for example, human resource management or case management can also be used to automate and rationalize disaster preparedness and response and solve a significant and troubling number of persistent weaknesses, problems, and shortcomings in these areas at government agencies.