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The worst roads in the world’s richest country

It is not the planning authorities or the central government who decides infrastructure development in Norway, but the local politicians. To put it simple, what in the US is known as “pork barrel spending” is what rules many of Norway’s infrastructure development projects. Why?

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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[...]
What is Freight Transportation System Resilience?
Resilience is the new buzzword in Supply Chain Management, and has slowly trickled into transportati[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
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[...]
Book Review: Humanitarian Logistics
Summer break is over and time for a continuation of my blog posts. Humanitarian Logistics by Ronaldo[...]
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[...]
Supply Chain and Transport Risk
We are living in a new world of risk that is making this world unprecedentedly complex and challengi[...]
from HERE and THERE
The Business Continuity Institute
The Business Continuity Institute (BCI) was established in 1994 to enable individual members to obta[...]
The effects of brand reputation on supply chain risk
The financial crisis has left the world in turmoil. Slowly but surely, the effects of one bankruptcy[...]