Covid-19 makes it very clear that businesses need to evolve to survive. It is very important to future proof your business. It is already looking like it may take longer than a year to find a cure to the pandemic. If the virus mutates into something worse, we may reach a time when face-to-face businesses just do not work anymore. To ensure that the human civilization show does indeed go on, I suggest we start evolving that way now.

Remote Services

Transforming your business into a remote service platform creates a path for your workers to remote into work from home. This can be a way to reduce overhead even after we are not quarantined at our homes. This will lower your overhead since you no longer need or need less of a physical space to house your employees and business.

Online Services

It was important before this crisis to have an online presence but it is going to be important for your business to have an online only model ready to go in the event that this crisis happens again or takes a prolonged period of time to resolve. Colleges are a great example. As colleges shutdown campuses across the world to protect students, they exponentially expanded their online courses and offered innovative ways to accommodate the lack of face-to-face interaction. It should be important moving forward to include an online model for all classes (and of any other service) so they can be easily transitioned at a moment’s notice.

Delivery Services

Online services have developed many new delivery services over the past couple years. It is important for businesses relying on that model to ensure they are plugged in to the digital market. Restaurants are a good example. It is import to be setup through apps such as Grubhub, DoorDash, and the like to make sure your food can be delivered to customers during these times when face-to-face interaction is not possible. This also transfers to many other services including general labor through apps such as Puls.