“The Coronavirus is in our land and now we must live with common sense….” –Captain Kelly Durant The Salvation Army In 1897, Daimler Victoria became the first metered automobile taxi service. In 2012, Uber transforms this model by offering a mobile app, allowing customers to repurpose another’s automobile. This innovative strategy is a blueprint for…
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.
Amazon is removing products for broad claims and price increases amid coronavirus outbreak. In 1918, St. Louis Mayor Kiel, ordered the closing of worship houses due to a flu pandemic. In 2020, the coronavirus (COVID-19) is being reported in many communities across the United States. The possibility now exists for community infections and government declared…
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…
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
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…
Note: here is a new action-oriented article that incorporates this material by reference. The coronavirus has killed over 1,300 people thus far[1]. Loss of life and other human costs — think of the guests and crew quarantined on the Diamond Princess cruise ship off Yokahama[2] — are far more important than commercial implications. Headlines Nonetheless,…
