Blog Archives

Book Review: Creative Destruction

The Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter uses the term Creative Destruction to describe the process of transformation that accompanies radical innovation. One of the ways an economy moves forward is by destroying the old in order to create new opportunities.

Posted in BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Tags: , , , ,

ARTICLES and PAPERS
Mitigating supply chain disruptions
How could I have missed this paper? I was preparing my 2009-lecture on supply chain risk for tomorro[...]
Shippers, carriers and disruptions
Both shippers and motor carriers are impacted by travel time variability, but they react differently[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Creative Destruction
Like with so many of my other recent book reviews I came across Nolan and Croson's book, Creative De[...]
Book Review: Single Point of Failure
Just out a few days ago, Single Point of Failure is a fascinating read. The author, Gary S. Lynch, i[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Critical Infrastructure and Resilience
What happens when a business is disabled for a length of time? What are the impacts on its profitabi[...]
Global Resilience Index
The 2015 FM Global Resilience Index provides an annual ranking of 130 countries and territories acco[...]
from HERE and THERE
The reliability and vulnerability of transportation lifelines
How can we assess how reliable or vulnerable the transportation is, and which parameters can we appl[...]
Supply Chain Performance Metrics
Financial key performance indicators are valuable because they capture the economic consequences of [...]