The following is an organizational announcement for Staples Advantage Corporate associates and global Vice Presidents and above from Tom Heisroth, SVP Staples Advantage Sales, and Steve Bussberg, SVP, Staples Advantage. To support Staples’ Reinvention efforts to turbocharge product-related services, we are excited to announce changes within our Staples Advantage Print business that will increase efficiencies and reduce customer confusion around our offerings.
Staples has unrivaled Print assets and we believe this reorganization will allow us to strengthen our position in the industry and become a true market leader. Jeff Crump, VP/GM, Staples Print Solutions, will be responsible for Print operations, all aspects of Print field support, and ownership of the total Staples Advantage Print P&L. Jeff will continue to report to Steve Bussberg. Geoff Eitland, Director, Procurement and Merchandising, will assume responsibility for all Print sourcing and vendor management.
In addition, our customer implementation teams will now be centralized, with Jamie Kapanka, Senior Manager, Sales Operations, reporting into the Staples Advantage Print operations group. The following Associates will report to Jeff Crump: * Geoff Eitland, Director, Procurement and Merchandising * Jamie Kapanka, Senior Manager, Sales Operations * Gary Swanger, Director, Finance * Gretta Staskiewicz, Manager, Marketing * Jeffrey Holton, Director, Manufacturing * Lee Ann Holley, Project Manager, New Business Development * Richard Campbell, Director, Integration Richard Martin, Director, Logistics * Robert Anderson-Ludrick, Director, PE Deployment Leader The Print sales teams led by Millie Tarallo and Ralph Torres will come together under the leadership of Wayne Wilkinson, Vice President, Staples Advantage Sales, who is taking on a new role overseeing the Print and Vertical sales teams. Wayne will transition into his new role over the next few months and will continue to oversee the Central Region until further plans are announced. Wayne will continue to report to Tom Heisroth, Senior Vice President, Staples Advantage Sales.
Reporting to Wayne will be: * Millie Tarallo, Area Vice President, Print * Ralph Torres, Area Vice President, Print * Susan Louis, Vice President, Healthcare * Judith Smith, Vice President, Federal Government * Jeremy Landis, Director, Vertical Markets Combining the Print sales teams under single leadership will increase sales productivity and uncover new sales and margin opportunities. At the same time, unifying the Vertical sales teams under Wayne will enable us to better focus on customers’ specialized needs in these segments.
As previously announced, business development for Print has been unified under the leadership of Kevin Moss, Vice President, Business Development and Joe McDonald, Director, Business Development. This new structure and improved support capabilities will give our sales teams more time to sell, while providing our customers the seamless experience they expect. We look forward to transforming the Print business within Staples Advantage and driving meaningful growth for the company.
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Fusion center is the collaborative endeavor of two or more agencies, which offer expertise, resources, and information to a center with the objective of optimizing their capacity to prevent, investigate, detect, and respond to terrorist and criminal activity. The national fusion centers act as the main focal points in the local and state atmosphere for the analysis, receipt, sharing, and gathering of the threat-associated information and data among state, federal, tribal, territorial partners and local. The centers are located in major urban areas and state all through the nation. The fusion centers are positioned to empower the frontier law enforcement, fire service, public safety, public health, emergency response, vital infrastructure protection, and the private industry security staff to collect and share threat-associated information lawfully. The paper examines how the fusion centers promote and bridge the gaps between the criminal justice process and security. It analyzes the importance of the interagency collaboration.
The fusion center offers interdisciplinary skills and situational awareness in informing resolution making at all the government levels. The centers carry out the examination and promote information sharing, helping the homeland security and law enforcement partners to protect, prevent, and respond to terrorism and crime in the country (Catano & Gauger, 2016). For the government to prevent terrorist acts on the American soil, they should enlist all of their law enforcement, intelligence, and homeland security capacities. The federal government will continue to leverage and integrate major urban areas and state fusion center, which can share classified data and information.
Currently, the federal government’s partners at all level have seen the urge for coordinated and unified support in the fusion centers. The national government committed to helping them to become analytic excellence centers which serve as the center for analysis, receipt, collecting and sharing of the threat-associated information among the SLTT partners and the federal government (Dasarathy, 2013). The interagency partners of Federal government comprising of the Homeland security, Justice Department, the office of the national intelligence Director, Federal Bureau of the investigation, the ISE program manager, Department of Defense and the National Drug control policy office committed to offering efficient, effective and coordinated federal government support to the fusion centers. In return, these fusion centers promote their SLTT collaborators by creating actionable intelligence, spreading relevant data and information to the partners of homeland security, undertaking in the countrywide SAR initiative and promoting their statewide fusion systems maturation.
The significance of the fusion centers is twofold: The centers create and disseminate products, which evaluate the local consequences of the level of the national information and sharing of the critical local and state information and intelligence with the federal regime and each other (Mitchiner, 2013). The fusion centers promote the sharing of law enforcement and homeland security information and data. They collaborate to develop a general understanding of the information. The centers bridge the gap of information flow between the individual fusion centers and the federal government and generate actionable intelligence. All through the system, the fusion centers uphold the practices, which make sure the civil rights, privacy and the Americans civil liberties. These information and rights protection is important to the capability of fusion centers to retain public confidence and trust. In assessing the capacities of the network and identifying strategic sites for investment and improvement in the future, state, federal, and local officials launched an initial formal evaluation of fusion centers baseline abilities in 2010 (Stein, 2017). The evaluation gave valuable information on the national network state at the time and assisted in identifying the capabilities of the fusion center, which required to be improved.
Conclusion
The US government decided to form fusion centers to bridge the gap between law enforcement and security. The main objective of the fusion center is providing a mechanism in which public safety, law enforcement, and private partners may combine effort with a common goal and enhance the capability to safeguard their homeland and avoid criminal activities. The firefighter, police officer, or a building inspector must not have to look for the information bits, but they must know a specific place- fusion center of jurisdiction. The centers have assisted in bridging the gaps between the law enforcement and security through collaboration. The federal, state, and local government now finds it easy to fight and combat terrorism and crimes in the country through fusion centers.
References
Catano, V., & Gauger, J. (2016). Information Fusion: Intelligence Centers and Intelligence Analysis. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications, 17-34. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-42819-2_2
Dasarathy, B. V. (2013). A sampling of US patents in the Information Fusion Domain. Information Fusion, 14(1), 1-4. doi:10.1016/j.inffus.2012.03.001
Mitchiner, C. C. (2013). Department of Homeland Security and Fusion Centers, an Unfused Network. doi:10.21236/ada589473
Stein, J. (2017). US DOE Regional Test Centers Program – 2016 Annual Report. doi:10.2172/1367412