COVID-19: Responding, Managing, And Leading During A Pandemic

The COVID-19 crisis is accelerating many trends that have been lingering for some time, including workspace virtualization, remote working, faster decision making, and automation. In this sense, the pandemic is also transforming Europe’s job market.

Learn more about translating social distancing guidelines to the workplace, providing safe commuting options, and more.

Thanks to COVID-19, the future of work starts now. Uncover the four shocks that were already going to pass through today's workplaces, affecting employees, leaders, and organizational mandates. But now, they are all accelerated.

To navigate the next stage of the coronavirus pandemic, governments and companies must design and enforce Pandemic Management Protocols (PMPs) — a set of procedures and processes by which people will go to the office, go to school, congregate in public, eat in restaurants, travel, and move without causing unmanageable new outbreaks of the virus.

In addition to government guidelines, firms must consider a number of other factors in bringing employees back to work. Here are four areas you might not be thinking about.

As firms emerge from the coronavirus pandemic, they need to realign tech spending to match post-pandemic priorities. Here are some tools and insight that can help.

In the 2020s, the aftermath of the pandemic and ongoing systemic risk will force every company to become much more resilient. In fact, we believe that resilience — the ability to deliver on your mission and vision regardless of any kind of crisis or disruption, be it extreme weather, political upheaval, cyberattack, or the next disease outbreak — will become a competitive advantage.

Increased cyberattacks, a remote workforce, and job security concerns have put even more pressure on CISOs. Analyst Jinan Budge shares helpful learnings from other leaders to help relieve the pressure.

In the wake of COVID-19, cloud and services partners have been essential to companies' ability to adapt. Leaders must also realize that these technologies and partners are essential to moving forward.

Do European firms receiving public financial support face a conflict of interest in evaluating automation options?

Consumers want more capabilities and better guidance from self-triage solutions. To achieve that, developers must apply specific design principles to improve consumer confidence in the advice delivered. 

Despite state and local governments allowing stores to reopen, consumer traffic will most likely remain well below pre-pandemic levels, making it likely that the pandemic recession will last well into 2021.

COVID-19 has accelerated the pace of change in marketing and selling. We've identified six trends that will endure after the pandemic ends.

Results from the our Consumer Technographics® COVID-19 Survey show how UK consumers have adjusted their spending habits and digital behaviors during the pandemic.