Description
Book SynopsisThis practical guide helps leaders understand the threat pandemics pose to society, the overall economy, and their businesses. Using illustrative examples, this book helps readers develop business-continuity plans to deal with the economic and medical consequences of a crisis.
A pandemic is an epidemic that covers a huge swath of the country or even the world. And it's just as scary as it sounds: For example, it's estimated that up to a third of the U.S. population could fall ill in an Avian flu pandemic, costing the U.S. economy alone up to $675 billion. Worse, pandemics shatter lives and businesses and tend to rock society to its foundations. But humanity has been through pandemics before. As disaster-management and business-continuity expert Geary Sikich shows in this book, there are ways to make the best of a bad situation. These methods improve the chance that businesses will remain resilient, and people healthy, employed, and productiveeven in the darkest days of an intern
Trade Review
Sikich offers step-by-step guidance in the form of assessment tools, exercises, and detailed examples…Recommended. Research and practitioner collections. * Choice *
Protecting Your Business in a Pandemic: Plans, Tools, and Advice for Maintaining Business Continuity is for business managers and owners who would understand pandemics and how they disrupt business functions - and how to re-organize a business with safeguards against major disruptions. From local to global reactions to pandemic reports to economic impacts on business, it offers a blend of assessment tools, exercises and applications key to developing a business continuity plan. * The Midwest Book Review *
A valued addition to community and academic library Business Studies reference collections, Protecting Your Business In A Pandemic is a critically important book which is especially recommended for non-specialist general readers concerned with protecting the viability of their jobs and their companies from becoming casualties of international disasters in any of the forms such disasters can take. * The Midwest Book Review *
Table of Contents
Foreword by Charles P. Carey Preface Chapter 1: A Call to Action: The Danger of HN51 Chapter 2: Pandemic Surprise Chapter 3: The Pandemic Settles In Chapter 4: Global Reaction to a Pandemic Chapter 5: The Danger of Reassortment Chapter 6: After the Shock: Potential Risks for the Global Economy Chapter 7: Paradigm Shifts: Socioeconomic and Market Ramifications Chapter 8: Tick, Tick, TickGeopolitical Impacts of a Pandemic Index About the Author
