Jack Shaw Speaking Topics

• Innovation, Technology, and the Post-Pandemic Future

• The “New Normal”

  There’s no way to know exactly how this “new normal” will shape up. We’ll have many new constraints. But we’ll also have many new opportunities.

  Some opportunities will be driven directly by the Coronavirus pandemic. For example, in Atlanta, the Old Fourth Distillery opened in 2014 making bourbon, vodka, and gin for bars and restaurants in the southeastern market. Obviously, this market has collapsed since the onset of Coronavirus. So, they switched to making (high alcohol) hand sanitizer to help meet the skyrocketing demand.

The Impact on Business

But while most of us, personally, can and will avoid getting the disease, very few businesses will avoid the economic impact of the disease on our global economy and society. Understandably, the first few days and weeks of responding to COVID-19 will be focused on the impact of the disease itself on your people and the short-term impact of the economic fallout on your business. First, you’ll need to determine your initial response to these issues.

Basically, how will we get through the next 30, 60, 90 days? You’ll need to set up flexible systems to execute that response and continuously monitor the situation. But it’s imperative that leaders also consider the medium-term and long-term economic impact of the disease on your business. As I write this in mid-April 2020, it is still unclear whether we will be back to “normal” in three months, six months, or even as long as 18 months or more. Regardless, you’ll need a well-thought through plan for how your business is going to continue to survive, and even thrive, in what will likely be a very new “normal”.

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