Businesses that have embedded agility into their organizational and decision-making structures are proving more adaptable and resilient in the face of COVID-19 and are bouncing back better than their competitors.
Exploratory scenario planning (XSP) is a process which can be used for resilience planning, helping managers to make decisions and plans in the face of critical unknowns and unclear futures. Rather than working toward a single vision, practitioners develop distinct potential futures (‘scenarios’) and consider how to measure and prepare for each.
Aon plc has released the results of a new global pulse survey focused on how companies are rethinking their human capital strategies in response to the humanitarian and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Aon has released the latest edition of its monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report, which evaluates the impact of the natural disaster events that occurred around the world during September 2020.
In a new report, ‘A World in Disorder’, published by the World Health Organization, the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) provides an assessment of pre-COVID pandemic planning, highlights lessons learned, and makes recommendations for improvements for future pandemic preparedness.
Gary Harrold, Chief Executive Officer at Swiss Post Solutions UK & Ireland highlights some of the lessons that can be learned from the current pandemic for improving future operational resilience practices.
The US Department of Homeland Security has published its 2020 Homeland Threat Assessment (HTA), which brings together threat information from across the DHS, including intelligence and operational components.
A new review published in Frontiers in Public Health suggests that COVID-19, the illness caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, will become seasonal in countries with temperate climates, but only when herd immunity is attained. Until that time, COVID-19 will continue to circulate across the seasons.
From the Black Death to the Spanish Flu, history teaches that social tension accumulated over an epidemic can lead to significant episodes of rebellion, according to a study by Massimo Morelli and Roberto Censolo from Bocconi University.
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Business continuity can be defined as 'the processes, procedures, decisions and activities to ensure that an organization can continue to function through an operational interruption'. Read more about the basics of business continuity here.
