Navigating The
Coronavirus Crisis

Insights and advice for business leaders, investors, and boards

The resources below offer guidance on how companies can create stability and resilience, protect value for recovery, and ultimately weather the storm.

COVID-19 Business Restart: Three Pillars for Business Recovery

A prolonged disruption could lead to a minimum 12-18 -month recession, bringing a need for enhanced business resilience and flexibility. In the new normal, "disruption as usual" is going to be the name of the game for several months. This three-stage business resumption approach is founded on time- and experience-tested principles of crisis management and is designed to give businesses the greatest chance of achieving a cohesive restart and moving through the first stages of recovery.

We are all transformative leaders now

Transformative leaders help companies not just recover from crises but also set the stage for sustained success long into the future. READ MORE

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Dos and don'ts for business leaders

Guiding an organization through a crisis requires adaptive leaders. Here’s how you can master this vital leadership style. READ MORE

10 PILLARS FOR MANAGING COVID-19 RESPONSE

Our 10-pillar approach is founded on time- and experience-tested principles of crisis management and is designed to give businesses the greatest chance to weather the storm, creating stability and resilience and protecting value for recovery. READ MORE

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Leading through crisis

A leader’s behavior under pressure demonstrates the true strength and resilience of an organization. This guide lays out simple ways to help you lead from the front. READ MORE

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Managing your cash in a crisis

Discover a simple approach to help you establish a ‘cash culture’—an essential ingredient in the ongoing resilience of a business. READ MORE

PRIVACY AND CYBERSECURITY CONCERNS

Now more than ever, employers must quickly assess their cybersecurity infrastructure and mitigate the risks of their expanding digital footprint. READ MORE

Insights and advice on operations continuity

AlixPartners offers our best practices for maintaining operational continuity throughout the current crisis in order to be best positioned for the eventual recovery. READ MORE

Cash is King

As GCC economies grapple with the coronavirus crisis and its ramifications, the risks of “getting caught short” have multiplied. READ MORE

Q&A: Leadership under stress

AlixPartners Managing Director Ted Bililies answers topical questions on improving the performance of leaders, even in trying times like these. READ MORE

MANAGING CYBER RISK IN DISRUPTIVE TIMES

Here are five key tactics for business leaders to minimize risk in a dispersed, high-velocity environment. READ MORE

UNFREEZING THE SUPPLY CHAIN: QUICK THAW OR SLOW DEFROST?

After the crisis passes, business will resume—but how will frozen supply chains return to normal after this unprecedented disruption? READ MORE

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Business continuity immediate concerns checklist

In this checklist, we highlight the immediate areas senior business leaders must address as they navigate this highly disruptive event. READ MORE

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Economic Crisis 2020—Uncovering Fraud

Corporate Scandals. Ponzi Schemes. Insider Trading. Investment Fraud. Looking at precedent downturns, fraudulent activity was exposed shortly after the stock market’s low points. Learn what to do now to protect your business. READ MORE

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Managing through crisis: Coaching tips for leaders

Amid so much uncertainty, it is increasingly important that managers take a strategic approach to directing employees and business objectives. READ MORE

INDUSTRY INSIGHTS: ACTIONS FOR STABILIZING BUSINESS AND PREPARING FOR RECOVERY

Shipping Industry: Intermodal Shipping Operations

Companies can position themselves for short-term survival and long-term success by focusing their resources and management attention on core activities, effectively managing fixed costs, and taking other mitigating actions. READ MORE

Practical steps for restaurants as business restarts

Regardless of whether restaurants have already reopened for dine-in service or are considering reopening soon, operators need to take several important and pragmatic steps today. READ MORE

COVID-19 crisis: US restaurant consumer pulse survey

As the COVID-19 crisis hits the restaurant industry hard in the US, consumer behaviors shift, revealing new groupings and patterns. READ MORE

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How to avoid financial risk from increasing online grocery shopping

During the coronavirus crisis, many customers are preferring to stay home and take advantage of home delivery and curbside pickup in unprecedented numbers. We outline advice on how to adapt in this ever-changing environment. READ MORE

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AlixPartners insights and advice: grocery retail

The food industry workforce is doing a heroic job during this unfolding human crisis. Grocery retailers will need to continue to prioritize the health and safety of consumers and workers, while remaining flexible. READ MORE

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AlixPartners insights and advice: consumer products

Unlike many other industries, in consumer products, disruption varies greatly by category, with demand for staples spiking while discretionary and luxury goods decline. For many, this is an opportunity to reinvent their core operating model. READ MORE

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Reset and restart: act now to prepare for a post-covid world

At this tumultuous, and frankly confusing, time, what actions can retailers take to minimize and prepare for impacts to the business while also getting ready for a post-COVID-19 world? READ MORE

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AlixPartners insights and advice: Transportation and infrastructure

As the novel coronavirus accelerates home-delivery adoption, US transportation and infrastructure players face a host of new challenges. READ MORE

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A struggling airline industry gets hit by another crisis

To manage through this crisis, there are several critical tactics that aerospace companies must employ over the next weeks and months. READ MORE

Leading through disruption: Lessons from years of business transformation

Managing for operational and financial performance during uncertainty

The COVID-19 crisis has had a major impact on intermodal -- operators can take steps now to prepare for an uncertain future across three phases. WATCH THE WEBINAR

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Our CEO's open letter to our clients in response to COVID-19

The coronavirus is dominating the news cycle, and it must also be dominating your personal and professional conversations. AlixPartners is no different; we are actively implementing our response to this situation while operating in an environment of considerable uncertainty. READ MORE

WHEN CHANGE IS THE ONLY CONSTANT

New realities require businesses and their leaders to confront a different set of priorities and hone new skills. Our research identifies four broad strategies across industries pursued by companies that have successfully addressed disruption. READ MORE

The dos and don’ts for companies in a crisis

Listen to this Chief Executive webinar on crisis leadership, featuring AlixPartners practice leaders Ted Bililies and Fred Crawford. Learn the key areas of focus in operations, finance, and communications based on their experience counseling thousands of business leaders navigating crises. WATCH THE WEBINAR

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Business innovation in a time of crisis

Many companies, across industries and geographies, are responding to the coronavirus crisis with corporate innovation and leadership. We recognize a few of them on our LinkedIn page. READ MORE

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