A must-have for facing the coronavirus threat, Robert A. Clark’s new book reveals what you should do to mitigate the risk, and limit the damage, while designing contingency measures to address a pandemic crisis.
The book builds on the themes introduced in his 2016 best-selling title Business Continuity and the Pandemic Threat – Potentially the biggest survival challenge facing organisations, by focusing specifically on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Business Continuity and the Pandemic Threat – Learning from COVID-19 while preparing for the next pandemic
2020 showed organisations that the threat of a pandemic needs to be taken seriously, emphasising the importance of preparing a business continuity plan and a pandemic plan in response to the crisis. Clark’s book focuses on how an organisation can create a new or update an existing pandemic response plan. He highlights the similarities in managing different types of crisis whether is it a pandemic, or other threats such as cyber attacks, floods, fires, civil disturbances, terrorism etc.
The book looks at several case studies, reviewing how different industries have been impacted by the pandemic, with the author also reflecting on his own personal experience during 2020. It also discusses the ways the virus has affected our economy and daily routines, and the psychological impact.
Discover:
- How your organisation can create and validate a pandemic response plan;
- How to manage your organisation when faced with a pandemic threat;
- How lockdown has impacted our mental health, economies and working culture; and
- How organisations from varied industries have adapted in response to the pandemic.
The book also provides useful free resources that offer further guidance/information.
Understand the corporate, psychological and societal impact of a pandemic threat and how to prepare for and mitigate its effects with this book – pre-order your copy today!
The book looks at case studies, reviewing how different industries have been impacted by the pandemic, with the author also reflecting on his own personal experience. It also discusses the ways the virus has affected our economy and daily routines, and the psychological impact.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: What is a pandemic?
Chapter 3: And the origin of the coronavirus was …
Chapter 4: Why did nobody warn us?
Chapter 5: Is it too late to write a pandemic plan now?
Chapter 6: Managing the crisis
Chapter 7: Lockdowns: saving lives, shattering economies
Chapter 8: Validating your pandemic plan
Chapter 9: Vaccinations – a silver bullet?
Chapter 10: Testing, track and trace
Chapter 11: It’s an ill wind …
Chapter 12: Case studies
Chapter 13: Impact on education
Chapter 14: Performing arts
Chapter 15: The psychological impact
Chapter 16: Some personal stories
Chapter 17: Time yet for a review?
Chapter 18: Companion book contents
Chapter 19: Summary
Appendix A: Other publications by the author
Appendix B: Useful free resource downloads
Appendix C: Pandemic training
Appendix D: Glossary of terms
Appendix E: Bibliography
Appendix F: Permissions and licences
Appendix G: Useful resources
Further reading
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Biographical note
Robert A. Clark is a Fellow of the Institute of Business Continuity Management, Fellow of the Institute of Strategic Risk Management, and a Fellow of the British Computer Society. His career includes 15 years with IBM and 11 years with Fujitsu Services, working with clients on business continuity management-related assignments. He is now a freelance business continuity consultant, trainer, university lecturer and published author. Contact Robert at www.bcm-consultancy.com.