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OUR CHALLENGE

Emergency Planning

He then outlined in perfect detail exactly what would happen during a viral pandemic, including the medical, economic, social, behavioural and psychological consequences. I taught pandemic preparedness on the basis of his example for the next 12 years. It is by no means an isolated illustration. Then it came to pass.

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Foresight

Emergency Planning

It can signify a means of diversifying assets so as to optimise the way they can be used to exploit people, for example, by shifting manufacturing production to places where wages can most easily be suppressed. Moreover, the Coronavirus pandemic has been widely used as a pretext for curtailing human rights.

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Hypercomplexity: Which Incidents Should We Be Preparing For?

Plan B Consulting

Those who live in earthquake zones are very aware of the risks involved and have emergency plans in place should they ever get caught up in one. As Fukushima in Japan was a major industrial manufacturing area, there was a ripple effect across the world as many components needed in manufacturing were very quickly unavailable.

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Hypercomplexity: Which Incidents Should We Be Preparing For?

Plan B Consulting

Those who live in earthquake zones are very aware of the risks involved and have emergency plans in place should they ever get caught up in one. As Fukushima in Japan was a major industrial manufacturing area, there was a ripple effect across the world as many components needed in manufacturing were very quickly unavailable.

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Business Continuity 2025 – What Will Future Incidents Look Like?

Plan B Consulting

In the 1990s, we had lots of transport and natural disasters, so emergency planning came of age. When BC started, I know of a Scottish Local Authority which spent £100k on external consultants to develop their BC plans. After BC came pandemic, followed slightly half-heartedly by supply chain and now cyber is in the focus.

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Business Continuity 2025 – What Will Future Incidents Look Like?

Plan B Consulting

In the 1990s, we had lots of transport and natural disasters, so emergency planning came of age. When BC started, I know of a Scottish Local Authority which spent £100k on external consultants to develop their BC plans. After BC came pandemic, followed slightly half-heartedly by supply chain and now cyber is in the focus.

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Four Questions About the Covid-19 Pandemic

Emergency Planning

What are, and have been, the key challenges in coping with the Covid-19 pandemic? The first challenge is to understand the behaviour of an emerging disease caused by a new variant of a virus. Viral pandemics can have impacts that are as significant in the socio-economic field as they are in epidemiology and viral medicine.

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