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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
Supply Chain Risk Management - A relationship approach
I couldĀ haveĀ just re-used the title on my post on risks in supply networks from a couple days ago an[...]
Next time in China: Guanxi
Today's post is an extension of what I wrote yesterday, in my review of what Fu Jia and Christine Ru[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: This is where raster GIS started...
...well not really, but Geographic Information Systems and Cartographic Modeling by Dana Tomlin spar[...]
Book Review: Operations Rules
Operations Rules by David Simchi-Levi comes with an ambiguous title. You can read this two ways: 1) [...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Zycus and the Supply Risk Explosion
"Ten or fifteen years ago, you could not convince most procurement and supply-chain professionals to[...]
A risky business? The top 10 challenges of offshoring
Organisations embarking on offshoring face multiple challenges; many of which can be extremely daunt[...]
from HERE and THERE
Is Your Supply Chain Vulnerable?
Recently I came across a report on Supply Chain Vulnerability published as early as 2002 by the Cran[...]
Defining and Measuring Economic Resilience
Economic resilience, as defined a paper published by the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Eng[...]