One of the blogs I like to browse from time to time, particularly when looking for topics related to resilience and business, is the Enterprise Resilience Management Blog. Written by Stephen F. DeAngelis, a technologist who creates businesses at the intersection of technology and major business and global trends, I like it because he takes bits and pieces from a variety of online, i.e. Internet sources and produces extensively long posts, a skill I have yet to learn as far as this blog goes. Every now and then, actually more than now and then recently, the blog has posts on supply chain issues and today I stumbled upon a June 2010 post on supply chain risk management, where he explains how cost-cutting can be the supply chain’s worst enemy. This is the first time I have spent some considerable time on DeAngelis’ blog, and it is not going to be the last time.

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