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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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