The past couple of years have witnessed some unprecedented natural disasters that have created major disruptions to supply chains (e.g., volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, and flooding). The most recent disaster is flooding

Supply chain risk management expert Daniel Stengl writes, “After a major disruption there are many firms [that] severely suffer and take a long time to fully recover. On the other side of

Despite access to more information and significant increases in available computing power, Carol Matlack concludes, “As the global economy gets more connected, it has become harder for insurers like Munich Re to

Russ Banham writes, “Thanks to the global financial meltdown, we now know what a ‘black swan’ is. But do we know from which direction the next one will swim into view, and

Bill McBeath, chief research officer at ChainLink Research, has stated, “Most companies fail to take a holistic approach to supply chain risk management. Individual functions do address some of their own risks

Back in March 2011, supply chain professionals were just beginning to grapple with the effects of the devastating earthquake/tsunami combination that struck Japan. One thing was clear, however, sectors that were going

In Part 1 of this two-part series, I discussed the first five highlights from an Economist Intelligence Unit report entitled Ascending the maturity curve: Effective management of enterprise risk and compliance. It

I was recently contacted by Annabel Symington, Deputy Editor of Business Research for The Economist Intelligence Unit. She thought I might be interested in a new EIU report that “examines how companies

Before jumping into today’s topic, I hope you will pardon a little horn-blowing. I was recently contacted by Tracy Myers of PMPCertificationTraining.org and told that this blog had made the group’s list