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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Emergency Planning

Yet the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts include no experts on managing emergencies, even though this is the most extensive, and perhaps the most profound, emergency that the country has faced in the last 75 years. The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009.

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Why Smart Leaders Know a Paradigm Shift Beats the Status Quo

Pure Storage

And then there’s Amazon: In the wake of a crippling global recession in 2009, the company launched new Kindle models—and profits surged. And we’ve seen how frustrating it is when these technologies are simply operational instead of strategic.

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

We have forward-looking actions across government, such as FEMA’s Strategic Plan. This budget is an ad hoc and non-strategic multi-billion, and with COVID-19, a multi-trillion dollar reaction to disasters. Using this data, we summed the enacted budget authority for supplemental appropriations by year.

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Business Continuity as a Business Strategy

Disaster Recovery Journal

Mintzberg, a doctoral professor of management at McGill University and author, considers business strategy as an organizational perspective of the business environment. The core strategic element of the business strategy was to provide customer service no matter what the situation.