Preparing governments for future shocks

Co-Author:  Cristina Caballé, Executive Director, IBM Global Public Sector

Over the past two years, governments around the world have navigated and responded to the impacts of the pandemic. Throughout this journey, governments have captured valuable lessons and gained an understanding of critical areas of focus. But government leaders are now telling us they fear what were previously viewed as rare Black Swan events are now becoming more frequent—and more destabilizing.

Emerge Stronger and More Resilient: Responding to COVID-19 and Preparing for Future Shocks

Moreover, collective strategies have led to identification and resolution of challenges in way that brings together government leaders, scientists, data analysts, health care organizations, academic institutions, and industry.

COVID-19 Phase III — The new urgency in modernizing supply chains for control, integrity, and dynamic agility

Blog co-authors:  Rob Cushman Senior Partner, Supply Chain Transformation, IBM, Mike Stone Global Managing Director, Public Sector, Healthcare and Life Sciences, IBM, Jonathan Wright Managing Partner and Service Line Leader, IBM, and Nikki Zimmerman Global Leader, Supply Chain Resilience, IBM

For the last several decades, a vast ecosystem of suppliers, logistics providers, and buyer brokers has partnered to optimize this extended supply chain and increase efficiency while cutting the cost of capital.

COVID-19 Phase III—Digital citizen services to emerge stronger and more resilient

Blog Co-Authors: Paul A. Dommel Global Director for Public Service, IBM, Nicholas Holmes CTO – Global Government Data and AI, IBM and Mike Stone, Global Managing Director, Public Sector, Healthcare and Life Sciences, IBM.

Governments suddenly faced enormous pressures on some services. For example, as many as 1 in 4 workers—more than 46 million people—received a form of unemployment insurance.

COVID-19 Phase III—Building a robust analytic foundation to emerge stronger and more resilient

Co-Authors: Cristina Caballe, Executive Director, Global Public Sector, IBM and Mike Stone, Global Managing Director, Public Sector, Healthcare and Life Sciences, IBM

COVID-19’s final phase: How governments can emerge stronger, more resilient

This blog was authored by Mike Stone, Global Managing Director, Public Sector, Healthcare and Life Sciences, IBM.

COVID-19 Phase III— Amplifying the security imperative to emerge stronger and more resilient

This blog is co-authored by Miro Holecy, Government Industry Executive and IBM Distinguished Engineer and Julian Meyrick, Managing Partner & Vice President, Security Strategy Risk & Compliance, IBM.

Tim Paydos

Tim has spent 22 years at IBM working mostly in the Government industry, though not contiguously—he left briefly in 1999 to try his hand at a startup, catching the dotcom implosion at just the right time before rejoining IBM three years later.

Phase III: The essential role of government in response to COVID-19

Around that time, I published the first in a series of blogs that sought to break down government response efforts into logical and digestible phases to help leaders organize their approach. The Phase I immediate response was all about emergency management and business continuity. This phase started with providing advanced analytics to track the virus and predict where it was going next.

Vice President & General Manager, Government Industry, Global Markets
IBM

Tim has spent 22 years at IBM working mostly in the Government industry, though not contiguously—he left briefly in 1999 to try his hand at a startup, catching the dotcom implosion at just the right time before rejoining IBM three years later.   Tim has a degree in Government from Harvard University, where he studied international relations, deterrence theory and nuclear war-gaming.  He first joined IBM in 1995 as an industry solution consultant.

Tim has had the honor of working personally with 100’s of government agencies both in the United Stated and abroad, at both the national, provincial and local levels.  His particular passion lies in helping public safety, emergency management, intelligence and defense protect the society they serve. Throughout his career at IBM, Tim has led a range of strategy and marketing, solution sales and solution management teams across services and technologies at IBM.