Protecting Your Business in a Pandemic: Plans, Tools, and Advice for Maintaining Business Continuity

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This 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 international disaster. Practical and hands on, the book provides step-by-step guidance in the form of evaluation and assessment tools, exercises, and detailed examples. Special tools include an easy-to-use roadmap for developing and maintaining a comprehensive business-continuity plan.

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Sikich offers step-by-step guidance in the form of assessment tools, exercises, and detailed examplesRecommended. 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 *

Author Bio

Geary W. Sikich is the author of It Can't Happen Here: All Hazards Crisis Management Planning, The Emergency Management Planning Handbook, and Integrated Business Continuity: Maintaining Resilience in Uncertain Times. The author of more than 175 published articles, in journals ranging from Continuity Insights to Supply & Demand Chain Executive, Sikich is the founder and a principal of Logical Management Systems. An internationally recognized speaker and symposium leader, he consults on a regular basis with companies worldwide on continuity, crisis management, and issues of operational resilience.