Companies and governments need to operate on multiple timescales to respond to the biological and economic threat posed by the coronavirus. They need to consider all levels of strategic response—reaction, recession, rebound, and re-imagination—simultaneously. In this piece, we offer the key principles for a multi-timescale strategy.
To avoid immense health or human costs, we will need to go beyond the essential first steps of mitigating the outbreak and develop new strategies that can allow us to resume some economic activity.
The complexity of this crisis can be paralyzing. But by approaching it methodically and with data, companies can act decisively as the business landscape evolves.
Frida Polli, CEO and co-founder of Pymetrics, a neuro-science/AI based hiring start-up, discusses the affect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the hiring process, specifically skill and mobility requirements of companies and how Pymetrics adapted to it. She identifies three key trends – reduction in physical mobility, digitization and hyper-localization.
Jim Loree, President & CEO of Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. discusses the application of technology and the “art of the possible” in crisis management from his experience in leading through the COVID-19 pandemic.
What can the story of Henrietta Lacks and HeLa cells tell us about the #InternetofThings and data rights? Three key lessons for leaders in a new article by Massimo Russo and Tian Feng.
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