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A Christmas To Remember

This has truly been a year of continuous supply chain disruptions, and many businesses have felt the effects of the pandemic. I realize now that I should have seized the opportunity long ago to reinstate this blog in the early months of 2020, not now, when it it is nearly over.

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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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Black Swan Events

Black Swan events – should we even bother? These events are practically impossible to predict, so instead of spending our efforts on quantifying and estimating them, maybe we should just let them happen?

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Managing Disruption Risks in the Supply Chain - the DRISC model
It is not often that I find a PhD dissertation that is excellently written and a joy to read, keepin[...]
Graph Theory to the rescue
Graph Theory. In Supply Chain Management? It's probably 10 years ago since last time I looked at Gra[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Research Methodologies in SCM
Is there something like the right research design for supply chain studies? I believe there is, and [...]
Book Review: Transportation Network Analysis
Transportation Network Analysis by M. G. H. Bell and Yasunori Iida is a book for the expert rather t[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Calculating the Value-at-Risk
Some of you may remember that I posted about the SCOR Framework for Supply Chain Risk Management ear[...]
A Decade of Living Dangerously
Do you remember the movie The Year of Living Dangerously with Mel Gibson? Topically unrelated maybe,[...]
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INSTR 2012 - Call for papers
This is a conference that you shouldn't miss if transport reliability and vulnerability is what inte[...]
Defining and Measuring Economic Resilience
Economic resilience, as defined a paper published by the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Eng[...]