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2010/09/02 BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS No reactions yet

Book Review: Risk Modeling, Assessment, and Management

First published in 1998 and now already in its 3rd edition in 2009, but still unknown to me, although I have been studying risk since the early 90s, Risk Modeling Assessment and Management by Yacov Haimes is not for those looking for a quick Wikipedia-like answer on how to analyze risk. It is an extensive work that on its downside may require many hours of studying. On the upside, however, it does contain all you would ever need to know and may not even want to know about the state of the art of risk analysis, a rapidly growing field with important applications in engineering, science, manufacturing, business, homeland security, management, and public policy. And it shows examples of how to apply risk analysis to all these fields.

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2010/08/04 BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS One reaction

Book Review: Humanitarian Logistics

Summer break is over and time for a continuation of my blog posts. Humanitarian Logistics by Ronaldo Tomasini and Luk N van Wassenhove was suggested to me by a reader, following up on my post on the special issue of the Journal of Production Economics on the topic of Humanitarian Relief Supply Chains, so I thought I should read and review it here on my blog. The book starts out well and manages to highlight the importance of applying professional supply chain management in ad-hoc humanitarian supply chains, and ends up with a case example that advocates corporate social responsibility as one way into humanitarian supply chains. Not what I expected, but perhaps exactly what is needed to make humanitarian logistics work?

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2010/04/20 BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS No reactions yet

Book Review: Heads in the sand

Alex Fullick Heads in the sandFinally, after 5 days of volcanic ash cloud posting, I can return to my regular topics of supply chain risk and business continuity, or maybe not…as I am tempted to rephrase the title of today’s book into “Heads in the volcanic ash”, but that would not be fair towards all those who did their utmost to deliver their services during the air traffic restrictions faced by the millions of travelers that were in fact stranded all over the world. Heads in he sand by Alex Fullick is a simple book, but it is a book that turns traditional business continuity thinking on the head, because what is business continuity really? It is the social responsibility to survive that your business has vis-a-vis the customers it serves, the suppliers that rely on it, the community it is located in, and most of all, vis-a-vis the people that work there. So easy, and yet so far from reality for many businesses in today’s world.

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2010/03/24 BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS One reaction

Business Continuity Challenges in Global Supply Chains

Business Continuity is a crucial ingredient of supply chain management. At the same time, implementing business continuity principles in supply chains is really simple. So says Steve Cartland in his book chapter on Business Continuity Challenges in Global Supply Chains in the book titled Global Integrated Supply Chain Systems, published in 2006. Cartland’s chapter is the last of the 19 chapters in the book, and the only chapter touching upon business continuity. Unfortunately. I think this chapter should have been first.

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2010/03/17 BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS 2 reactions

Published. Not perished.

Managing Risk in Virtual Enterprise NetworksPublish or perish? Publish. It has taken its time, but finally it is there, the book that has my chapter in it. Managing Risk in Virtual Enterprise Networks: Implementing Supply Chain Principles, edited by Stavros Ponis, aims to serve as a point-of-reference for scholars and researchers who are interested in studying Risk Management in a cross-disciplinary fashion, linking Virtual Enterprise Networks with Supply Chain Management and Risk Management. I am proud to be able to contribute of this attempt at cross-fertilization between three distinctively different, yet highly interconnected fields of research.

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