Larger corporations with international operations and extensive business continuity operations are likely to have fully developed pandemic disease plans. These became more common about 15 years ago when there was a threat of a flu pandemic. However, most medium-sized companies will be lucky to have a fully developed business continuity plan that addresses natural disasters and other technological type of events.
With the discovery of the coronavirus, now is the time to update those business continuity plans and if they don't have a pandemic component, add that to the plans. Then ensure that your technology infrastructure can support what your plans reflect. That means physically testing the technology.
See my most recent op-ed below in the Puget Sound Business Journal on the topic of coronavirus and business continuity.
Opinion: Coronavirus reminds us to stress test our disaster preparedness
