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Sheffi’s disruption profile

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

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
A supply chain is never stronger than the weakest link
Are you the weakest link in your own supply chain? That's the question asked in an article in the Ha[...]
Acts of God or Acts of Man?
Do we ever learn? How come we humans knowingly and willingly put ourselves and our critical infrastr[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Managing External Risk
I am blessed to have a college library that complies with most of my book acquisition requests and t[...]
Book Review: Supply Chain Risk Management
This excellent book by Donald Waters, Supply Chain Risk Management: Vulnerability and Resilience in [...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
A Decade of Living Dangerously
Do you remember the movie The Year of Living Dangerously with Mel Gibson? Topically unrelated maybe,[...]
Assess the vulnerability of your production system
So far I have reviewed "international" literature and web sites, and it is only fitting that now it [...]
from HERE and THERE
ArcView Network Analyst Tutorial
The ArcView Network Analyst (AVNA is extension module for ArcView GIS. This tutorial was developed b[...]
The Business Continuity Institute
The Business Continuity Institute (BCI) was established in 1994 to enable individual members to obta[...]