K2, a leader in intelligent process automation, has published the results of a recent Harris Poll survey, ‘Accelerating Automation: How Businesses are Adapting to a Post-COVID World’.
The Deutsche Bank Thematic Research team classifies the COVID-19 pandemic as a tail risk, and highlights that the occurrence of tail risks is more regular than most people think.
The World Health Organizations says that a record number of countries are now monitoring and reporting on antibiotic resistance. This is a major step forward in the global fight against drug resistance but is highlighting that ‘a worrying number of bacterial infections are increasingly resistant to the medicines at hand to treat them’.
Supply-chain security and resilience is currently a huge emerging issue for the tech sector and securing corporate supply chains should be the number one priority for CISOs over the next 12 months. This finding emerged from a Resilience First expert briefing on how the Internet has been the backbone of business response to the impact of COVID-19.
A new paper in the Journal of Public Relations Research considers how employee behavior / behaviour impacts organizational resilience, and presents the results of a US survey looking at this area.
The UK business resilience organization, Resilience First, has published ‘A Resilience Guide for Our New World’, a new route map for businesses to strategically find ways out of the COVID-19 crisis.
A partnership of stakeholders has developed a set of free and open tools designed to accelerate innovation in the crisis management field.
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have all become aware of how a global crisis can affect our access to food. But imagine the food security impacts of an even worse scenario - an all-out nuclear war, a large asteroid strike, or a super volcano eruption.
The World Health Organization is assisting the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to respond to a new Ebola outbreak in the city of Mbandaka in the northwest of the country. There have been six confirmed Ebola cases in Mbandaka, with five deaths resulting.
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