Pie Pandemic Preparedness

Problem:

The world wasn't prepared for COVID-19, but should have. Hospitals, businesses, and governments find it challenging to turn CDC guidelines into hardwired action steps. CDC content is not structured to be easily executed with accountability, team collaboration, and governance.

Solution:

The PieMatrix Pie visual process management application was optimized to turn CDC pandemic preparedness content into an organization's visual execution tool and is available for free. Pie offers the ability to modify pandemic content, assign accountability, collaborate with sharing ideas, govern progress, and improve for the future. Today, there are a number of pandemic processes available for free on the Pie Recipe Store.

Changing Lives:

Organizations across the world can customize pandemic preparedness content from lessons learned and make decisions and actions more successful for the next virus wave and future epidemics and pandemics. Anyone can get started for free under 60 seconds.

COVID-19 has caught the world by surprise. Not that we never thought it would happen, but rather that we didn't prepare in advance. Therefore, close to half a million people lost their lives and many more are suffering from economic hardship. We all acted too late and when we did, we didn't know what to do.

Hospitals, businesses, and governments didn't have hardwired pandemic preparedness processes ready to assign, execute, and govern.

CDC and WHO guidelines are there to help, but they are just pages of paragraphs and bullet points. This body of text leaves organizations on their own to figure out how to best structure for implementation. 

The end results is just a bunch of hacking and figuring things out on-the-fly with everyone struggling with their own tactical crisis situations.

This lack of epidemic and pandemic preparedness was experienced in both rich and poor countries.

Today, many organizations think they now know what worked and didn't work, but they are now facing challenges of turning their lessons learned into a blueprint for what to do for the next virus wave or future pandemics. They are still missing a preparedness tool that's easy for everyone to use.

PieMatrix created the Pie visual process management tool to help organizations execute repeatable best practices that we call "recipes". 

To support the community, we made COVID-19 CDC-based content recipes in our tool available for free for hospitals, businesses, and governments. We also provided a free version of our application for unlimited users to execute these pandemic processes.

We make it easy for organizations to turn pandemic preparedness action steps into executable projects. They can customize with drag and drop, assign people, add due dates for accountability, and monitor progress. Teams can collaborate, solve issues, and share new ideas for improvement.

Todays, we have the following ready-to-use processes in our Pie Recipes Store that is accessible for free from anywhere around the world:

• COVID-19 Employers Back to Business Action Plan
• COVID-19 Employers Back to Isolation Action Plan
• COVID-19 Healthcare Facilities Plan
• COVID-19 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Crisis Plan
• Plus more...

People can get started under 60 seconds and learn how to use the COVID-19 preparedness content with little need for instructions as it's easy to learn how to use.

Our target audience are hospitals, businesses, and organizations that would prefer to be better prepared for future epidemic and pandemic situations. 

They are people within these organizations who believe that it's better to have best practices content, lessons learned, technology, and people willing to ask for help and willing to help others. They are tired of hacking their way through crises and prefer to have more hard-wired structured, yet flexible ways to reduce risks of harm and death.

To help these people, we have done legwork in preparing critical CDC-based processes ready-to-execute. Our tool also makes it simple for people to change the content based on their unique situations. They can also create their own processes from scratch.

Once the processes or "recipes" are ready, the organizations can kick them off within seconds as new projects and then get team members started with following action steps. For example, for businesses, steps can include actions like improving stay-at-home policies, keeping employees safe, disinfecting work stations, etc.

Organizations can use the Back-to-Business recipe to open up as the risk of the virus diminishes, or they can quickly switch to he Back-to-Isolation recipe if the virus spikes back up.

In summary, the challenge is that hospitals, businesses, and organizations are not prepared for pandemics or epidemics. Even after going through the crisis, most will not document best practices that are easily executable and assignable for future short-term and longer term global or regional risks.

These organizations don't have the right tools in place that makes it easy to contain and implement the CDC and WHO how-to content.

Our Pie visual process application is well aligned to get this done. We already have CDC-based recipes in place and businesses are using it with successes.

Our differentiation is based on these three points: 

1. Visually simple
2. Process driven
3. Content ready

Our application was re-built from scratch over a year ago with the latest application stack (React and Elixir). It works on both desktops and mobile as a fully responsive web application.

The Pie application is already in use by a number of customers in the US and some in Europe. Here are some customer testimonials.

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