The current pandemic is having an acute impact on many businesses with some losing over 95% of their revenues for a prolonged period. This is an extreme example of how events can make our best laid-out plans superfluous, leaving us to reinvent ourselves for the future. As EA and IT portfolio professionals, we have to be prepared for such events, be able to react to them quickly with focused plan changes, and to build our business to be resilient to disruption and change. IT portfolio management provides us with analytics, insights, planning capabilities, and governance to help us face this task and to provide business leaders with quick answers from IT when events take over. In this playbook we will see how.