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Cutting costs or cutting risks?

Obviously, cutting risks and cutting costs are two strategies that are often detrimental to each other, and after cutting costs simply for the sake of reducing operational costs, you may have to cut corners in order to cut risks.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Supply chain risk in turbulent environments
An intriguing title caught my eye today.  Supply chain risk in turbulent environments - A conceptua[...]
Economies of integration
Logistics is no longer what it used to be and logistics today plays a much more important and strate[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Virtual Teams
This is another post resulting from my literature review when researching background material for my[...]
Supply Chain Nirvana
Is there something like a Supply Chain Nirvana, where it all comes together and where a firm's suppl[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
When disaster strikes...
...how does the transportation network recover? And why are transportation networks so essential to [...]
Stemming the rising tide
Are you are taking radically different actions than your peers when it comes to supply chain risk ma[...]
from HERE and THERE
Using social media in a crisis
Scandinavian Airlines facebook
Sometimes the timing of Internet launches is just right. And for Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) the tim[...]
In memoriam David Kaye
Sad news. I don't always keep up with the subjects of my reviews, and today I was very saddened to l[...]