2010 trends

Each company has about disruptions in the supply chain, union strikes, unrest and the huge swings in the purchasing behavior of consumers. Often, they can hedge their efforts to counter such issues, and fortunately, there are usually more advanced warning of problems on the horizon. Of course, certain problems and challenges exist in our society and civilization, or unfortunate events that may be foreseeable future, can not always be resolved.

Take, for example, a swine flu pandemic, everyone knows that it is possible, but it is not like other diseases. If there is an earthquake, flood, a fire in one of your stocks or other types of natural disasters, in general, most companies that have continuity and disaster recovery strategy for such things. But is a swine flu pandemic, an entirely different problem.

Many companies are established in which the employees can work from home, this means that they can not get to work or come into contact with another employee. The question is, can a company run entirely Net-centric, and how many months in the event of such a pandemic? And if a company has branches, they can sell their products online to stay in business.

Even more important for a company's equity and quarterly profits. In other words, they sell their products online is not enough to survive, but to achieve their quarterly targets, even if their share prices collapse? We see trends in 2010 in continuity and disaster recovery for large pandemics are.

We also see great working think tanks and strategic planners with a game plan in advance, or at least a plan to get them through the first weeks of the crisis. Mexico City, if you recall, halting all business and government to introduce measures in three days, if it would sound to the U.S. in three months?

Is your company ready? Does your company have a plan? That is the question that we think tank, asked me to ask you today. Think about these things.