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Books in Business Continuity Management and Planning

Supply Chain Continuity

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Revised on: 2015-09-10

Many business owners will have come across the term business continuity, and many supply chain owners will have come across the term supply chain risk management. However, the term supply chain continuity is still a rather unexplored topic, gathering mere 45000 search results on Google, while business continuity has no less than 10 million results. But isn’t that what supply chain risk management is all about, namely supply chain continuity? Well, here’s a book that most certainly thinks so: A Supply Chain Management Guide to Business Continuity by Betty A Kildow, showing how a well-functioning supply chain is the key to a well-functioning business.
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Risk Management Simplified

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Revised on: 2011-07-05

Risk management. Why make it difficult when you can make it easy? That is perhaps what Andy Osborne thought when he wrote his most recent book, Risk Management Simplified. The cover says that is is “A practical, step-by-step guide to identifying and addressing risks to your business”, and it doesn’t come much more practical than this. This is a handbook and a self-assessment tool that leaves practically no risk uncovered. It’s practical, well-illustrated, to the point, not academic at all, filled with case examples and easy to work with. In this post, I will take a closer look at the book, because despite it’s simplicity, it does hold a couple of hidden gems worth mentioning.

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Book Review: HBR on Crisis Management

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Revised on: 2015-09-26

Close calls and near misses are not unusual in the business world, but how do companies deal with them? Published in 1999, the Harvard Business Review on Crisis Management is my third post on the Harvard Business Review Paperback Series, not that I intend to review all 73 of them. But this book reflects much of what is on my mind these days. I’ve had this book on my bookshelf for some time now, and I was planning on a review later this month, but the news on SAAB’s demise compelled me to move up my review in my posting schedule. The closure of SAAB is a major crisis by all standards, and is a fitting reminder that this 10-year old book will never go out of date. Why and how do some companies survive, and some not? This book sheds some light on this.

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Book Review: Managing Risk and Resilience in the Supply Chain

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Revised on: 2015-10-14

This book is a gem. To me. Where Helen Peck in her article Reconciling supply chain vulnerability, risk and supply chain management takes a holistic academic perspective on supply chain risk and business continuity, the late David Kaye in his book Managing Risk and Resilience in the Supply Chain takes on a holistic business perspective to explain the concept of the extended supply chain. Seldom have I read a book that captured my attention from the beginning to the end. It is not a textbook for the academic, nor is it a handbook for the manager, but it is an easy read.

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The Handbook of Business Continuity Management

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Revised on: 2015-09-20

As I said in my post yesterday, Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) has many similarities with Business Continuity Management (BCM), which is why SCRM can and should draw upon BCM for advice. One of many good references for further reading on this subject is the The Definitive Handbook of Business Continuity Management by Andrew Hiles. I haven’t read enough books on  BCM to say that this is “the definitive” handbook; it certainly is “a comprehensive”  handbook. This 600-something pages heavy brick of a book is probably not something you  read from cover to cover. I did. Well, most of it, that’s how my weekend went by in a fly…

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