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Robust, Rapid, Resilient

The resilience of any system can be measured by two dimensions: robustness, the extent of system function that is maintained, and rapidity, the time required to return to full system operations and productivity. In essence, pre-disaster mitigation fosters robustness, and post-disaster adaptation fosters rapidity.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Community resilience in times of disaster
Can public-private partnerships improve community resilience? This question is posed in Leveraging p[...]
Call for papers: Supply Chain Risk in China
Supply chain and operations management are increasingly global, and China has become the world's man[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: HBR on Supply Chain Management
Today we continue my exploration of the Harvard Business Review Paperback Series that I started yes[...]
Supply Chain Risk - Jetzt auch auf Deutsch
Unbeknown to me - or perhaps I really should have known better - there appears to be a large body of[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Supply Chain and Transport Risk
We are living in a new world of risk that is making this world unprecedentedly complex and challengi[...]
The UK Transport Network Resilience...and I
UK Transport Network Resilience
For a budding and even for a seasoned researcher, nothing is more rewarding than to have one's publi[...]
from HERE and THERE
A Christmas To Remember
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This has truly been a year of continuous supply chain disruptions, and many businesses have felt th[...]
A crisis is NOT an opportunity
Time to debunk one of biggest and most persistent myths that has plagued crisis management for more [...]