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Taleb, Hamel, Holling…and I

I really should no longer be so surprised that my idea of how to differ robustness from flexibility from agility from resilience resonates with quite a number of people, including Si Alhir.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
What is risk?
What is risk, and how can it be expressed? Should risk be defined through probabilities or should ri[...]
The Final Frontier: The Northern Sea Route
Sought after by polar explorers and long awaited by the shipping community: The Northern Sea Route. [...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review:Managing Risks in Supply Chains
To make up for yesterday's perhaps overly harsh critique of just one article from this book, this is[...]
Book Review: HBR on Crisis Management
Close calls and near misses are not unusual in the business world, but how do companies deal with th[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Highway Vulnerability and Criticality Assessment
Transportation vulnerability and resilience have been the focus of this blog for the past two days, [...]
Risky cities - want to work there?
If you are doing global business, do you know where you are at risk and what risk that is most perti[...]
from HERE and THERE
Finding academic articles without academic journals
As a researcher within supply chain risk, I try to read as many academic journals as possible, and I[...]
Supply chain disruptions by pirates
Yesterday I cited the press release of the Norwegian shipping company Odfjell, which no longer will [...]