Michael Osterholm / new Foreign Affairs article

[scottmcpherson]

Re: Michael Osterholm / new Foreign Affairs article

I think they see the need to provide a service and realize they need to cover their costs. As a university-affiliated nonprofit, they cannot "profit" from it in the truest sense. But they do need to cover their costs of providing a service. They can also squirrel some money away.

Osterholm is religious about preparing businesses for supply chain peril and other economic disasters related to a pandemic. Sometimes, in America and elsewhere, businesses and corporations do not see the value in advice unless they themselves are paying for it! Why else would they pay billions to consultants to tell them what they already know?

In this case, they have either never planned for supply chain disruptions, or they forgot their Y2K plans for same. And they realize, however dimly at first, that maybe there is something to this pandemic stuff after all. Realizing this information has value, they seek to pay firms to get their advice tailored to their specialty. It is not unlike IT professionals paying Gartner. The company could get smart, but it is far more cost-effective to pay someone else to do the research and planning instead.

I believe Osterholm has great credibility and is a great spokesman for our cause.

 

[Jonesie]

Re: Michael Osterholm / new Foreign Affairs article

After spending $1800 to attend the meeting, if those in attendance then prepare adequately for the pandemic, and urge the hundreds of others in their large corporations to do likewise, then it is money well spent. It is for a worthy cause.
Most corporations have large expense accounts. They can well afford the fees.

Somebody ought to tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying.
Then we might live life to the limit every minute of every day. Do it, I say, whatever you want to do, do it now.
- Michael Landon -​

 

[gsgs]

Re: Michael Osterholm / new Foreign Affairs article

what do they get for the money ?
Anything which they can't get e.g. here from reading Flutrackers ?

 

[4-ABBA]

Re: Michael Osterholm / new Foreign Affairs article

Very wise, intuitive, and well said, Scott!!

4-ABBA

I think they see the need to provide a service and realize they need to cover their costs. As a university-affiliated nonprofit, they cannot "profit" from it in the truest sense. But they do need to cover their costs of providing a service. They can also squirrel some money away.

Osterholm is religious about preparing businesses for supply chain peril and other economic disasters related to a pandemic. Sometimes, in America and elsewhere, businesses and corporations do not see the value in advice unless they themselves are paying for it! Why else would they pay billions to consultants to tell them what they already know?

In this case, they have either never planned for supply chain disruptions, or they forgot their Y2K plans for same. And they realize, however dimly at first, that maybe there is something to this pandemic stuff after all. Realizing this information has value, they seek to pay firms to get their advice tailored to their specialty. It is not unlike IT professionals paying Gartner. The company could get smart, but it is far more cost-effective to pay someone else to do the research and planning instead.

I believe Osterholm has great credibility and is a great spokesman for our cause.