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A Christmas To Remember

This has truly been a year of continuous supply chain disruptions, and many businesses have felt the effects of the pandemic. I realize now that I should have seized the opportunity long ago to reinstate this blog in the early months of 2020, not now, when it it is nearly over.

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Taleb, Hamel, Holling…and I

I really should no longer be so surprised that my idea of how to differ robustness from flexibility from agility from resilience resonates with quite a number of people, including Si Alhir.

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Black Swan Events

Black Swan events – should we even bother? These events are practically impossible to predict, so instead of spending our efforts on quantifying and estimating them, maybe we should just let them happen?

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Inbound and outbound vulnerability
After publishing A conceptual framework for the analysis of vulnerability in supply chains, Gøran Sv[...]
Supply Chain Risk Management: A Neural Network Approach
I found a very interesting article by Frank Teuteberg in Strategies and Tactics in Supply Chain Even[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Low Cost Country Sourcing
Low-cost countries. A dream for some and a nightmare for other others. What are typical supply chain[...]
Book Review - Fraud Risk
Last year I was approached by Gower Publishing and invited to review their Short Guides to Business [...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
London Olympics and Business Continuity
Are UK businesses, and in particular London businesses, unprepared for the London Olympics in 2012? [...]
Global Risks 2012
Are economic imbalances and social inequality risk reversing the gains of globalization? Should we s[...]
from HERE and THERE
Global Risk and Compliance - Are you protected?
Trade Compliance and Export Control are not just buzzwords in global supply chain. They represent si[...]
International Conference on Flexible Supply Chains in a Global Economy
This conference is hosted by Molde University College, the leading research and education center for[...]