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  • Published. Not perished. Managing Risk in Virtual Enterprise Networks

    Publish or perish? Publish. It has taken its time, but finally it is there, the book that has my chapter in it. This book links Virtual Enterprise Networks with Supply Chain Management and Risk Management in a cross-disciplinary fashion. [ ... ]

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    Supply management is not just about acquiring goods and services at the best possible price. It’s also about identifying possible disruptions to the supply chain and taking steps to mitigate them. [ ... ]
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2010/05/03 my PUBLIC PRESENCE 2 reactions

Risk and Vulnerability in Virtual Enterprise Networks

A month ago I posted on my first publication, a book chapter on A Conceptual Framework for Risk and Vulnerability in Virtual Enterprise Networks in Managing Risk in Virtual Enterprise Networks: Implementing Supply Chain Principles, edited by Stavros Ponis from NTUA in Athens, Greece, and published by IGI Global. A month ago, the book was merely announced on the publisher’s website, now it is fully present. Not only do I have the honor of opening the book by being the first chapter, but  – as I just found out – I also have the honor of having the free sample chapter for download…making my thoughts available for criticism for the whole Internet world, not just the inquisitive  reader who stumbles upon this book in the university library and decides to read it.

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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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2010/01/09 BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS No reactions yet

The Definition of Agility

H T Goranson: The Agile Virtual EnterpriseAlthough getting close to 20 years old now, The Agile Virtual Enterprise: Cases, Metrics, Tools, written in 1992  by H T (Ted) Goranson, is a book that still holds timeless ideas and visions that are still applicable.  While the at that time emerging vision of  the virtual enterprise is at the forefront of the book, it is also the only reference I have found that properly differentiates between agility and flexibility and what being agile actually entails. This blog has previously reported profusely on flexibility, let alone resilience and robustness, but has severely neglected agility. With this post, I intend to take a closer look at what it means to be agile.

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2009/11/03 from the LITERATURE No reactions yet

Supply Chain Flexibility in Strategic Networks

A supply chain as a virtual enterprise network. That is the underlying reasoning in the 2009 paper How to improve supply chain flexibility using strategic supply chain networks by Herwig Winkler. Virtual Enterprise Networks do not play a major role in this paper, but what fascinates me are (1) the parameters defining supply chain flexibility: Transparency, Simplicity, Responsiveness/Agility and Security/Reliability, and (2) flexibility potentials: Structural, Technological and Human flexibility potentials.

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2009/07/21 my PUBLIC PRESENCE 4 reactions

Are risks in virtual enterprise networks different from supply chains?

MITIP 2009It is not unusual for suppliers in a supply chain to come together and act as a Virtual Enterprise Network (VEN) and today’s supply chains exhibit many VEN-like features. Is managing risks in Virtual Enterprise Networks different from managing risks in supply chains? With this in mind I submitted a paper to MITIP2009, the 11th International Conference on the Modern Information Technology in the Innovation Processes of the Industrial Enterprises, to be held in Bergamo, Italy, in October.

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