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The capability concept

Capability is an important measure in adressing vulnerabilities and in assessing resilience. Is there a way to quantitatively describe what capability entails?

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What is risk?

What is risk, and how can it be expressed? Different international standards, such as the AS/NZS 3460 Risk Management Standard, the COSO ERM framework and the ISO 31000 Risk Management Standard do not provide adequate guidance for risk assessments and lack the necessary precision.

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Not all risk is risk

The article lists and discusses eight risk definitions, and then suggests an alternative and comprehensive definition that captures all aspects of risk.

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Risk versus vulnerability

In this paper safety and security are brought together in a unifying risk and vulnerability framework that covers both accidental and malicious events.

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Certain death: Not risky. Uncertain death: risky.

It is only when the consequences of actions and events are uncertain that these actions and events are truly risky.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Graph Theory to the rescue
Graph Theory. In Supply Chain Management? It's probably 10 years ago since last time I looked at Gra[...]
A supply chain is never stronger than the weakest link
Are you the weakest link in your own supply chain? That's the question asked in an article in the Ha[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Logistics and Supply Chain Management
This book by Martin Christopher, Logistics & Supply Chain Management, is one of the better if [...]
SC Design and Management
More than 500-page heavy and laden with real-life examples and thoroughly calculated details, Design[...]
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[...]
Stemming the rising tide
Are you are taking radically different actions than your peers when it comes to supply chain risk ma[...]
from HERE and THERE
Supply Chain Risk Management 2008
Supply Chain Risk Management 2008, 3rd & 4th November 2008, World Trade Centre, the Netherlands[...]
Today's transport disruption: volcanoes
I haven't had a "In the news" post for quite some time, but now Norway and much of Northern Europe a[...]