The novel coronavirus which causes the disease called COVID-19, the outbreak of which the WHO has elevated to a pandemic is affecting every single aspect of life in both developed and undeveloped nations. Whether the economic fallout of the pandemic is widespread regional recessions, a global recession, or even results in depression, manufacturing, and asset-intensive…
Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry once related a story: He claims readers perceived journalists as hard working investigators hitting the phones and slaving over their typewriters to make deadlines. In reality, he said, they could most often be found in the board room wheeling around on the chairs and dunking paper wads into the trash…
The Event The current health crisis due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is having a considerable impact on public events. As of today, the following events have been canceled or postponed: COVID-19’s Greatest Hits. Given that the revenue model for music industry artists has shifted to streaming + live performance model, the cancellation of these…
There are scary lessons to be learned from the terrible threat Italy is facing. The US and other nations better listen. Time to get ready is running out much quicker than you think.
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis continues spreading much faster than most global leaders expected. China failed to provide timely reporting, health quarantine measures for containment, and medical disaster readiness. Now, it is infecting and killing people in all the world’s continents except Antarctica. The coronavirus pandemic is entering a new global phase after numerous containment…
What can you do to stay competitive when your business and IT infrastructure are unharmed, but one localized part of your workforce is diminished or even immobilized? The inextricably intertwined nature of commerce today means that practically any business disruption can be felt anywhere – including separate commercial ecosystems. More than ever, the smallest problems…
What lessons can we learn and what disaster planning actions should we take given our experience with the Coronavirus.
CIO’s need to ensure that enough remote access capacity and prudent network access security is in place should half the workforce be forced to work remote for an extended period of time due to a COVID-19 pandemic occurs
Digital is not an enterprise strategy, it’s part of the enterprise fabric. Becoming a digital enterprise requires a plan, however. As the digital enterprise mindset unfolds, so does the work to establish and implement a well-curated, holistic, and dynamically transforming digital enterprise. The digital enterprise focuses on how the business will be executed, and that…
For years I joined the trek to Mobile World Congress and fought my way through the surging throngs in both the old and new Firas in Barcelona. It was both a genuinely global event and an ideal environment for contageous diseases to spread, with crushes of tired delegates pushing against each other to get from…
