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Risk management: core competence?

Blindly minimizing risk is a losing proposition in the long term, and uncertainty or risk are at the root of opportunity towards new profitable enterprises. Risk minimizing does not equal profit maximizing.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Ericsson versus Nokia - the now classic case of supply chain disruption
When faced with a supply chain disruption, proactive and reactive supply chain risk management can i[...]
MBA - Major Bad Ass?
Are business schools bad for business? I recently came across a very interesting article by the late[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Operations Rules
Operations Rules by David Simchi-Levi comes with an ambiguous title. You can read this two ways: 1) [...]
Book review: Cost-Benefit Analysis
This book, Cost Benefit Analysis: Concepts and Practice (3rd Edition), by Anthony Boardman et al. is[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Supply chain vulnerability: an invisible global risk?
Supply chain disruption - a global issue? All companies and governments dependent on external suppli[...]
Highway Vulnerability and Criticality Assessment
Transportation vulnerability and resilience have been the focus of this blog for the past two days, [...]
from HERE and THERE
The curse of being oil-rich
Ah...the complacency of being oil rich. So complacent, in fact, that we forget about our infrastruct[...]
Fewer suppliers mean fewer choices for consumers
The financial crisis has created an supply chain crisis, says The Economist. As demand for cheap goo[...]