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Four Questions About the Covid-19 Pandemic

Emergency Planning

What are, and have been, the key challenges in coping with the Covid-19 pandemic? Viral pandemics can have impacts that are as significant in the socio-economic field as they are in epidemiology and viral medicine. Huge changes in the pattern of demand and supply will occur during a pandemic.

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COVID-19 – A massive failure of risk management?

Plan B Consulting

This week I look at risk management in response to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak and Black Lives Matter movement. I wanted to write about risk management and what I perceive is a massive failure of the process and implementation in ensuring that organisations were ready for a pandemic.

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COVID-19 – A massive failure of risk management?

Plan B Consulting

This week I look at risk management in response to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak and Black Lives Matter movement. I wanted to write about risk management and what I perceive is a massive failure of the process and implementation in ensuring that organisations were ready for a pandemic. Pandemic an identified risk.

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Navigating the Supply Chain Crisis

Risk Management Monitor

Extraordinary congestion at critical global ports, decreased availability of key raw materials and component parts, rising freight bills and an increasingly tight job market have all contributed to the need for companies to create an effective logistics risk management program.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Emergency Planning

Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Exercise Cygnus Report.

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The Risks that Manufacturing Firms are Facing and the Impact that Follows

Fusion Risk Management

We’ve been living in a compound crisis since the start of the pandemic – we have been experiencing global political instability, war, an increase in cyber and ransomware attacks, labor shortages, shortages of critical commodities, etc.

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The New Normal

BCP Builder

What will the new normal look like following the Coronavirus Pandemic? I have included two videos below: A webinar on how to return to business following this pandemic. This means that management will need to address what their new business model will be. A pandemic similar to COVID-19 was not unexpected.

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