Business Preparedness
Recent News
Resources & Literature
Business Preparedness
Economic Impact
What does food industry preparedness mean for you? Plenty
Pandemic Planning Toolkit
10-Point framework for pandemic influenza business contigency planning
Issues to Consider
Beyond the debate about pandemic severity lies a critical business continuity issue
How to avoid a dangerous hazard in the all-hazards approach
What does food industry preparedness mean for you? Plenty
Will the water still run during a pandemic?
AT&T. 2010 AT&T business continuity study: US national results. June 2010. [Full text]
Bellagio Group. Statement of principles on social justice and influenza. Jul 2006
CDC. 2009 H1N1 and seasonal influenza and Hispanic communities: questions and answers. Feb 16, 2010 [Full text]
Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources, Australia. Being prepared for a human influenza pandemic: business continuity guide for Australian business. 2011
Harvard Opinion Research Program (Harvard School of Public Health). Employers took many measures to protect employees and avoid business impact of H1N1 flu outbreak. Poll results released Jun 22, 2010
Kelley NS, Osterholm MT. Pandemic influenza, electricity, and the coal supply chain: addressing crucial preparedness gaps in the United States. Nov 2008[Full text]
Updating and Revising Your Plan
Putting your plan through its paces
How's your business discontinuity program?
Keeping the world working during an influenza pandemic
Sharing Your Plan
Sharing corporate pandemic preparedness plans: End the secrecy - or risk the consequences
Silence complicates efforts to gauge readiness of food industry
Doing business during an influenza pandemic
Keeping the world working during an influenza pandemic
Tabletops and Exercises
Putting your plan through its paces
Fortune 500 companies put their plans to the test
Designing, Conducting, and Evaluating Tabletop Exercises for Pandemic Influenza Business Continuity Planning [PowerPoint]
Kristine Moore, MD, MPH; Jill DeBoer, MPH; CIDRAP
The Tabletop Exercise Planning Process: From Conception to Action [PowerPoint]
Kristine Moore, MD, MPH; Jill DeBoer, MPH; CIDRAP
Facilitating a Tabletop Exercise [PowerPoint]
Kristine Moore, MD, MPH; Jill DeBoer, MPH; CIDRAP
Communication
Types of Risk Communication
What kind of risk communication does pandemic preparedness require?
Start thinking in phases - risk communication phases
Riding the many pandemic seesaws
CDC offers pandemic communication guidance
Teachable Moments
A preparedness trifecta: Why are we missing such teachable moments?
How not to conduct crisis communication
Get your slice of the 'fearfulness' pie
Engaging Your CEO or Board
A shot in the arm for preparedness: Former CEO offers what's needed to engage your CEO
The birds and the beds: A week in the journey of pandemic preparedness
Is the pandemic threat receding, or does it just look that way?
Talking about a flu pandemic worst-case scenario
Engaging your CEO in pandemic preparedness: How to build a strategy to overcome indifference
Assessing corporate executives on pandemic preparedness engagement
Pitney Bowes: Using fresh memories, history to get the preparedness message across
Evidence plentiful of a pending pandemic
Overcoming Apathy & Inertia (Pandemic Fatigue)
Read 'FAFfing About' if you need some motivation
Is H5N1 still a threat? What to do when your pandemic preparedness work is challenged
Re-engage colleagues on preparedness
Keeping tabs on H5N1 media coverage
'Might help a lot, might help a little, might not help at all--and worth trying!'
Combating pandemic planning fatigue
How Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu prevents pandemic planning fatigue
Employee Communications
Why talk now? The case for communicating with employees before the pandemic arrives
Corporate pandemic precaution advocacy: The time is now
Is the pandemic threat receding, or does it just look that way?
Re-engage colleagues on preparedness
Start thinking in phases - risk communication phases
Seesaw your way through ambivalence
Riding the many pandemic seesaws
A severe pandemic is not overdue - it's not when but if
When the pandemic is on our doorstep, is it too late to prepare?
Communicating to Americans living abroad
Communicating Pandemic Flu Basics
Communicating with Other Companies
Corporate pandemic precaution advocacy: The time is now
Sharing corporate pandemic preparedness plans: End the secrecy--or risk the consequences
Customer/Client/Vendor Communications
Pay attention to bellwether sectors: What transportation and financial markets can tell us now
Sharing corporate pandemic preparedness plans: End the secrecy--or risk the consequences
When the pandemic is on our doorstep, is it too late to prepare?
How's your business discontinuity program?
Public Relations
Sharing corporate pandemic preparedness plans: End the secrecy--or risk the consequences
Riding the many pandemic seesaws
CDC offers pandemic communication guidance
Osterholm Briefings
Pandemic preparedness after H1N1: Remember--If you've seen one pandemic, you've seen one pandemic
'It's Over': WHO calls H1N1 'post-pandemic'--what does that mean to you?
With biases all around, how can you ensure sound preparedness decisions?
Was H1N1 another Y2K? Not on your life
H1N1 lessons have been learned, but will they stick?
ALERT: What to make of the current regional uptick in H1N1 activity in Southeastern states
Understanding the real impact of the novel H1N1 influenza pandemic: Why your colleagues need to know
Looking forward and behind: What's at stake right now with H1N1?
Dispatch from Davos: It's what I didn't hear that concerns me
The H1N1 pandemic: The next chapter
Making sense of the H1N1 pandemic: What's going on?
For now, don't count on much vaccine: Time to step up your efforts to protect your employees
During the H1N1 pandemic, please allow sick workers to stay home
We're Beyond Theory, and on to Reality and Execution
Predicting disease severity based on history is pure puffery: So what's a responsible planner to do?
Attention: Battlefield mentality required to get through the upcoming influenza season
The early innings of the novel H1N1 pandemic: Keep your eye on the ball
What does WHO pandemic declaration mean to your organization?
Novel H1N1 influenza: Lessons learned and yet to be learned
Yes, it's a pandemic: Where do we go from here?
How soon can you expect phase 6, and what really changes when the phase does?
Straight talk on business travel, working smart, school closures, and realistic expectations
What does the bump to phase 5 mean for your business now?
What do the WHO pandemic alert phase changes mean to you?
The swine flu news gets worse -- and what you should do about it
The straight story on the novel swine influenza virus that has infected people in California, Texas
