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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
Humanitarian Relief Supply Chains
Managing disaster supply chains has much in common with managing supply chain disruptions,  and a d[...]
Supply Chain Confidence
Did a 2001 white paper turn into a 2004 academic journal article just like that? In Mitigating suppl[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Appetite versus Attitude
Finally, and long overdue, another review in the Gower Short Guide to Business Risk book series. Thi[...]
Book Review: Customs Risk
International trade and global supply chains are filled with goods that are criss-crossing the globe[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Creating the resilient supply chain
This blog is about supply chain risk, business continuity and transport vulnerability, and while I h[...]
America’s Crumbling Infrastructure
My daily morning routine includes a cup of coffee while watching the World Business Report on BBC Wo[...]
from HERE and THERE
Will your business byte the dust?
To backup or not to backup? Honestly, you shouldn't even be asking yourself this question. Can you a[...]
Migrants and European supply chains
Truckers caught up in Europe's migrant crisis say business is increasingly disrupted by queues and s[...]