Editorial Rethinking Information Technologies and Information Systems—From Informing Pandemic Preparedness to Managing Business Disruptions and Endemic Responses

In The wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world seems to have jumped off the hinges. During the pandemics, countries needed to first take several steps to contain the spread and subsequently find solutions to exit the pandemic—these often being connected also to solutions related to information systems—which can, however, also bring important lessons for other sudden shock situations, as well as periods of endemics.