Insurance/Logistics The Most Effective Risk 'App' Is a Person

摘要

From figures just released by London and Swiss re-insurers, last year was a lot like the Texas drought - one we are trying to forget. A new record was set in the cost of natural disasters including tsunamis, earthquakes, floods and droughts. Thirty years ago many of these events would have been local human tragedies, but not the international enterprise losses of today - losses that rippled surprisingly far up the corporate food chain. What factors make such events, well, more eventful? Two big factors The first factor is that so many companies have both their strengths and weaknesses swimming in the same logistic gene pool - meaning dependency on a few massive, global supply routes that are often highly leveraged.