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Sheffi’s disruption profile

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This is tell-tale illustration of what happens when supply chains are disrupted and businesses are impacted. They may, or may not, be able to bounce back to where they were before the event. The survivability of the company depends solely on the company’s resilience towards the disruption.

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Book Review: The Resilient Enterprise

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Excellently written, The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage does not necessarily provide concrete solutions for your own business, but it showcases how other companies, successfully or not, handled various crisis situations.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
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Certain death: Not risky. Uncertain death: risky.
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BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Logistics Management and Strategy
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Book Review: Political Risk
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REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Managing supply chain risk
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Critical Infrastructure and Resilience
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from HERE and THERE
Sustainable Manufacturing Summit Europe
Soaring fuel prices combined with increasing awareness of the need to adapt for a low-carbon future [...]
BBC World Debate: Disasters - Prepare or React?
Should we actually bother to spend time and money on disaster mitigation, or should we rather focus [...]