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Book Review: The Resilient Enterprise

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Revised on: 2015-09-08

To me, this book by Yossi Sheffi was an eye-opener, not so much for it’s academic value, but for it’s “entertainment” value, “entertainment” as in “stop-you-in-your-tracks-and-make-you-think”-value. Excellently written, The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage does not necessarily provide concrete solutions for your own business, but it showcases how other companies, successfully or not, handled various crisis situations. Sheffi’s analysis of how and why things go wrong or right is spot on and to the point.

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Why we need to think the unthinkable

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Revised on: 2010-09-22

Immediately after September 11, 2001, “critical infrastructure” and “vulnerability” seemed to be the new buzzwords. More recently “resilience” has been added to that list, and for a good reason. In a business sense, resilience is the ability to recover from any unforeseen event and how quickly one can return to normal day-to-day operations. Probably the most vulnerable and most critical infrastructure in our time are global computer networks, such as the Internet.

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Supply Chain Management – Emergency Management

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Revised on: 2011-08-01

Yes. No doubt about it. Reduction, Readiness, Response and Recovery are four key elements in the New Zealand Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002. But how can this be related to supply chain management? Well, from time to time any supply chain will face the possibility of being disrupted, severed, delayed or severely impacted.

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How New Zealand develops resilient organisations

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Revised on: 2015-09-09

Is New Zealand better prepared for a disaster than other countries? As our infrastructure and organizations become ever more networked and interdependent there is a growing need to focus on managing overall system risk. In particular, there is a need to focus not only on the vulnerability of our systems to failure, but also on our ability to manage and minimize the impact of any failures. New Zealand has realized this and is currently halfway through a six year research project designed to assist organizations in recovering their economic competitiveness after hazard events.

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