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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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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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Business, Interrupted: Peeling Back the Layers of Supply Chain Resilience

Castellan

In episode six of Castellan’s podcast, “ Business, Interrupted ,” we chatted with David Landsman , Senior Vice President and Head of Global Operations at JLL Technologies , about the changing threat landscape for our supply chains and the role third-parties play in our resilience management goals and successes. Materials and Movement.

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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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Economic Impact of Russia Sanctions

Fusion Risk Management

The increased cost of transport and the rising price of raw materials – in conjunction with existing issues already exacerbated by the global pandemic – could lead to new shortages, additional delays getting products to port to help repair products, or extremely high costs.

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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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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 was expected. New Skills/ Sustainability.

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