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Seconds From Disaster

Crises build up from an accumulation of day-to-day imperfections that are small and unnoticeable (almost) and which progressively make the organization more vulnerable to any potential threats. The Devil lies in the details of these small anomalies (hence the title) and not in the sudden onset of exceptional events.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
A new and better way of classifying and managing risks?
Risk. The probability of an event occurring and the consequences of the event occurring. That is how[...]
Occupational hazards in supply chains
Material breakages and damages are not unknown incidents in supply chains, but material damage and o[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Cooperative Strategy
Cooperative strategy is the attempt by organizations to realize their objectives through cooperation[...]
Transportation Hazards
This is an updated and extended review of  the Handbook of Transportation Engineering by Myer Kutz ([...]
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[...]
Hiperos - the Integrated View of Supplier Risk
Supply chains have gone global. No longer are they a point-to-chain of goods flowing from a source t[...]
from HERE and THERE
Can you outsource risk?
While China has taken steps to address safety concerns after the recalls of last year, yet small pl[...]
Managing Supply Chain Risk
Did you know that the Supply Chain Council (SCS) has extended their renown SCOR-model  to Supply Cha[...]