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2009/03/01 REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS No reactions yet

Infrastructure - essential for competitiveness?

aftenposten-090228Regular readers of this blog may have noticed my regular rants about the state of the Norwegian infrastructure, and roads in particular. Now, aftenposten.no reports that there is some support from the Global Competitiveness Report by the World Economic Forum. In overall infrastructure quality, Norway ranks 28/134, behind many other European countries, which is not too bad, but when it comes to road quality, Norway ranks 48/134, even behind countries such as Namibia (23/134), Tunisia (39/134) and Botswana (44/134).  This is not good news.

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2009/02/18 REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS No reactions yet

Global Risks 2009 - Countries at risk?

global-risks-2009How will the current financial downturn affect supply chains? That’s what we all wonder about, isn’t it? I was hoping that the annual Global Risks report, published by the World Economic Forum would shed some light on that, picking up on their 2008 subject, Hyper-optimization and supply chain vulnerability: an invisible global risk?. But, the 2009 report did not follow up that particular subject, it went in a different direction, taking a broader look, not a certain industries or sectors or parts of the economy, but looking at whole countries and their risk preparedness. What the financial crisis has shown, is that the globalized world is interconnected.

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2009/01/22 from the LITERATURE No reactions yet

Global Risk Reports

While waiting for the Global Risk Report 2009, the continuation of the Global Risk Report 2008, on which I have reported earlier, it may be time to read the other risk reports by the World Economic Forum. These reports take a closer at look at Europe, India and the Middle East.

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2008/10/12 REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS One reaction

Global Risks 2008 - A prediction come true

In my post on Hyper-optimization and supply chain vulnerability: an invisible global risk? I highlighted some of the issues in Global Risks 2008, a report prepared by the World Economic Forum. It is now frightening to see how true the predictions in this report were, in particular, how it predicted the current economic downturn. Maybe we should pay more attention to these reports?

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2008/07/02 REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS No reactions yet

Hyper-optimization and supply chain vulnerability: an invisible global risk?

Supply chain disruption – a global issue? All companies and governments dependent on external suppliers are exposed to the risks of disruption in their supply chain. But the extent and complexity of current global supply chains mean that the problem of supply chain management is not limited to a single enterprise or industry: even a relatively small supply chain disruption caused by a global risk event may ultimatelyhave consequences across the global economic system.

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