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By Betty A. Kildow, CBCP, FBCI
In recent years, business continuity management has become more holistic business practice and increasingly recognized as a core business practice. Once focused primarily on recovery of data center operations, then expanded into a more enterprise-wide approach, there is now the realization that for business continuity to succeed in its primary goal, to manage operational risks, it is necessary to fully include all internal and external operations of an organization including all links in the supply chain.
In a best practice business continuity approach this requires a proactive methodology to identify risks to each component of the business…people, operations, facilities, equipment, and technology, and mitigating the identified risks, as well as developing and implementing strategies and plans to respond when disaster strikes. In the logistics arena this must include plans for mitigating the risks that threaten any part of a company’s physical plant as well as plans for response to disasters and recovery of operations following a disruption or disaster of any magnitude.
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To get a read on China’s Industrial property sector, Russel Beron looked at recent trends and spoke with Sally Lin, Country Director of sustainable warehouse developer, Gazeley China and Michael Cole, Managing Director of RightSite.asia, an online portal focused on China’s industrial property scene.
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Despite the ongoing European debt crisis, decelerating manufacturing and rising labour and commodity costs, China’s industrial property sector appears to be on firm ground. Rents are increasing steadily and demand is outpacing supply, mostly due to limited supply of high grade property along with high prices and a shortage of land for development in prime locations. At the same time industrial property investment yields remain in the solid range of 9 percent, making the sector attractive for investors.
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It would appear that really innovative ideas in logistics real estate are few and far between. Is this caused by a lack of innovation in the market, or is there simply no opportunity to be innovative?
In order to find an answer to the question we must first have a definition of innovation. According to the Dutch edition of Wikipedia, innovation or renewal can apply to new ideas, goods, services and processes, can take place within organisations as well as in a wider context, and comprises the total of human actions aimed at renewal (of products, services, production processes, etc.).
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By David Bovet
Why should U.S. companies focus on their distribution networks in Europe? Headlines about Greek sovereign debt and German unhappiness at “rescuing” the euro could give pause to expansion strategies aimed at Transatlantic markets.
Yet the European Union (EU) remains a $16 trillion economy, the world’s largest. Many U.S. companies are seeking to further diversify their business globally, hedging bets and searching for new
geographies. American exports to the EU are up 3.5 percent, in nominal dollar terms, this year (January- April) over 2009. Meanwhile, despite a reversal in the past few months, the U.S. dollar is still down by 27 percent versus the euro since ATMs across Europe first started dispensing the new currency in January 2002. And Europeans remain among the wealthiest consumers in the world—six countries in Europe currently have higher nominal GDP per capita levels than the United States.
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Towards a sustainable logistics real estate market
At the crossroads
Why do people always have to do things the hard way? Is it that we like a challenge, or are we simply focused on short-term benefits? The world offers a number of freely available energy sources that represent so much power that the world’s population could double in size. Nevertheless, humanity has chosen to use energy sources that need to be extracted from deep inside the Earth, and then they have to be processed before they can be used to provide energy. Throughout history, the development of energy sources has been a hit-and-miss process. Mineral oil for example used to be sold cheaply as a lighting product for decades before it finally became the world’s premier source of energy.
We still really have no idea about the sources of energy that still exist, let alone which of them will become important in the future. A great example of how the direction of human innovation can change can be found in the development of the internal combustion engine and the growth of commercial aviation. Together they brought us growth, but they also brought problems and uncertainty. We now see that the problems with our energy supply are reaching the point where we need to find solutions by creating a new path to new energy sources. Better still, we should try to use less energy to sustain our way of life. We should live greener.
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