Blog Archives

Resilience as a job description

So I now call myself “Resilience Adviser”. And what do I do? My job is to oversee that the state-managed road network in my region is planned, built, operated and maintained so that it can function 24/7/365, and thus ensure societal safety and societal security.

Posted in THIS and THAT
Tags: , ,

Are roads more important than computers?

The objective of the first project ‘Protection of Society’ (POS) or ‘Beskyttelse av Samfunnet’ (BAS, in Norwegian) was to describe how modern society will react to and can protect itself when facing modern warfare. In doing so, the report identified key components and functions that are essential to a modern society, and interdependencies between them.

Posted in REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

ARTICLES and PAPERS
Strategies for managing risk in multinational corporations
In my post two days ago, reviewing the article by Manuj and Mentzer (2008) titled Global Supply Chai[...]
How to secure your supply chain - 6/7
Although going on 10 years hold, much of this handbook still holds true. I found it by accident when[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Resilience times four
Resilience. It is not so much about reducing the number of things that go wrong, but it is about imp[...]
Book Review: The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation
This book, The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation: Contributions to Theory, Method and Measur[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Saving Norway's crumbling infrastructure
NTP 2010-2019
Following up my post this morning called "D-Day for Norway's Transport Infrastructure", the numbers [...]
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
Pålitelighet og sårbarhet av transportsystemer
Transportsystemer som veg og jernbane danner ryggraden i et moderne samfunn. Påliteligheten og sårba[...]
Resilience as a job description
Ever since I started to work for the Southern Region office of the Norwegian Public Roads Administra[...]