Today is my Mother’s 85th birthday and PG&E turned off the power for her and 900,000 other customers across Northern California on Saturday to prevent forest fires due to the poor condition of its power grid.
No resilience in low cost
A bad experience on a Ryan Air flight this weekend has led me to question if the current trend toward hiper efficiency and out sourcing is really a good idea – especially considering the number of strategic and operational risks that business is faced with today.