“It’s a nice time to re-evaluate what they have been doing for the previous six months, one 12 months, and two years, and see the place they stand in their business,” he says. In a current report, management consultancy agency KPMG analysed client spending following the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome epidemic in Hong Kong and the 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome outbreak in South Korea. A pandemic is called a ‘black swan’ event – a set of circumstances so unlikely, businesses do not even factor them into ahead planning, budgets, or worst-case situations. Yet 2020 has introduced such an…
