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The world we live in: Risk Society

We live in a world that is full of risk, risks that we to a large degree have created ourselves, and naturally occuring risk hardly exists anymore. That is a risk society.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Estimation of disruption risk
How to estimate the disruption risk exposure in a supply chain? That is the question asked by Ulf Pa[...]
Sheffi's Resilient Enterprise and supply chain risk
It is unfortunate that many companies still leave risk management and business continuity to securit[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Supply Chain Risk Management
This excellent book by Donald Waters, Supply Chain Risk Management: Vulnerability and Resilience in [...]
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
28 Global Risks in 2015
The  World Economic Forum Global Risks Reports. I first came across them in 2008, when the hyperopti[...]
Zycus and the Supply Risk Explosion
"Ten or fifteen years ago, you could not convince most procurement and supply-chain professionals to[...]
from HERE and THERE
Why we need to think the unthinkable
Immediately after September 11, 2001, "critical infrastructure" and "vulnerability" seemed to be the[...]
D-Day for Norway's Transport Infrastructure
Today, on this ominous date, Friday the 13th, Norway's government is presenting it's development pla[...]