 new title, but I can't use ECEM to swap out incandescent light bulbs or upgrade a truck fleet. In other words, a separate ECEM application can tell you where you might want to look for changes, but that's where its functionality ends. Look through the list of top 100 software companies, and you won't find any businesses centered around monitoring.
There's no cost center in enterprises that can successfully pay for and push for ECEM as a major new application. ECEM spans two large corporate functions, operations and facilities, as well as a number of other functions, including sustainability, legal, CSR, risk, finance, audit, etc. From a budget perspective operations has the biggest one, so would appear to be a good candidate. Facilities is a cost center, and in every business I know is under major budget pressure, and the other functions are even less likely to finance a major application purchase. But the problem is that operations already has a monster investment in ERP, and would need a compelling reason to bring in a major new application (more on this later), and facilities and the other functions rarely have the clout to push a new enterprise-wide application on operations.
But I said that ECEM would be a major corporate function, and here's how I believe it will play out.
First, the enterprise function will be much bigger than energy and carbon. Within a few years companies will find that they need to track, manage and report water, a wide range of chemicals, and various forms of recycling at the same level of detail. Similar to energy and carbon this will span facilities and business operations, and will reach out through the supply chain. This trend will be driven by environmental and natural resource concerns, but will also have huge financial drivers as our supplies of energy, water and other natural resources are further stressed.
Second, the ECEM market as we see it today will split into two, and in doing so will turn the 'M' from monitoring to management. In the case of operations, enterprise carbon, energy and natural resource management (ECENRM) will become a feature of the major ERP platforms. Last year SAP bought Clear Standards, and they and Oracle have been touting their growing feature list. For operations this is the right place for the functionality to be, since not only can you see what's happening within the ERP system, but you also have the controls to make changes. Want to optimize the amount of product shipped by rail instead of air? The logistics package in your ERP system is where you'll have the data and control to do that.
Facilities will absorb the second fragment of the proposed ECENRM space. Today this is a much smaller market than the ERP market, and will remain so. But the part of ECENRM that falls into facilities management will be able to both monitor and management the energy, water, etc. Much of this will be manual today, but will become increasingly automated.
As for the 70+ (and I've heard 100+) companies who were started up in this space, they will find that they need to focus on either operations or facilities, and that in both cases its tough to convince either group that they need another, separate application. A few lucky ones will be bought by existing ERP and facilities management companies, some will find small, profitable niches, and the rest will have a tough go of it.
Where will that leave the sustainability professional, charged with reporting enterprise-wide carbon and energy? They'll have to talk to both operations and facilities and integrate the two sets of data into a final report. Is this ideal? Probably not, but the functions are so different that dealing with each of them on their own turf probably makes the most sense anyway.Extra Handlebar Mount for you One80 Bike Light.
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More generally, police overreaction, always in riot gear, has spurred more protest and additional national attention, affording opportunistic politicians who have never been near Ferguson to weigh in with their own favorite political points. As if things weren’t bad enough anyway, local police dug even deeper, tear gassing a television news crew and arresting reporters.
Over the past fifty years or so, police in larger cities have gradually learned how to exercise control, sometimes vigorously and violently, without projecting an image unambiguously worse than those they are policing. The images from Ferguson evoke comparisons to suppression of democracy movements in authoritarian countries, with the additional twist of a racial bias and inequality that is distinctly American. Two-thirds of the 21,000 city residents are African-American, just like only 3 of the 53 police offices, and one of the six city councilors.
Concern about racial inequities is nothing new in Ferguson, but effective organization and advocacy may be.
So, what will come of all this? How do protests about violent actually translate into policy changes? Hint: usually, they don’t. Remember, Trayvon Martin’s killing isn’t all that long ago. That generated nation-wide protests of all sorts, the legal intervention of state government, and the trial (and acquittal) of the shooter. If changes in gun laws or community watch groups have followed, we certainly haven’t seen it.
At the moment, protesters are focusing on the City’s refusal to release the name of the officer who shot Michael Brown, pending an investigation and criminal charges. But Ferguson residents–and others [including Anonymous]–already know the name, or at least they say they do. But the name is not going to be what matters for very long. If the shooter were a rogue in the department, protests of this volume and vigor could not have emerged. Locals see Michael Brown’s death as a casualty of something larger, and national figures have followed that vision.
Protest about police policies leads to reform only when political mobilization follows. In Los Angeles, the 1992 riots that followed the acquittal of the police who beat Rodney King, ultimately led to the retirement of longtime police chief Daryl Gates, a parade of new chiefs, a series of commissions, and a number of reforms. Political figures intervened when they could because the sheer disruption of the riots made it difficult not to. In New York City, the controversial stop and frisk policy lingered for decades. Mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio used opposition to the policy to mobilize voters, and delivered on his campaign promise to end it.
In Ferguson, the peaceful protests–and the riots–work if they force the issue of police conduct, and if they agitate or inspire locals to engage in other kinds of politics. Getting the name released has to be part of a longer, more difficult process, to provoke meaningful change.Potential Work Risks From Hazardous Drugs, Ways to Control Exposures, Described in NIOSH Alert
March 29, 2004
NIOSH Update:
Contact: Fred Blosser (202) 401-3749
Healthcare employers and employees should be aware that antineoplastic drugs and other pharmaceutical agents may pose work-related health risks to employees, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) cautions in a new NIOSH Alert. The Alert makes recommendations for reducing occupational risks in healthcare settings by controlling job-related exposures.
Pharmaceutical agents are classified in the scientific literature as "hazardous drugs" if studies in humans and animals indicate that they have the potential to cause cancer, to result in developmental or reproductive toxicity, or to harm organs in exposures at low doses, the NIOSH Alert notes., NIOSH notes. Exposures may occur from the presence of an agent in or on the air, work surfaces, clothing, equipment, patient excreta, or other surfaces in areas where the drugs are used. More than 5.5 million healthcare employees may be occupationally exposed to hazardous drugs in the U.S., including pharmacy and nursing personnel, physicians, operating room personnel, environmental services employees, veterinary care staff, and shipping and receiving