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Navigating the Supply Chain Crisis

Risk Management Monitor

Extraordinary congestion at critical global ports, decreased availability of key raw materials and component parts, rising freight bills and an increasingly tight job market have all contributed to the need for companies to create an effective logistics risk management program. How Did We Get Here?

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Business, Interrupted: Peeling Back the Layers of Supply Chain Resilience

Castellan

While the pandemic certainly has shone a light on supply chain resilience issues, it’s not a new problem for the industry. That was a similar experience for others during the height of the pandemic in 2020 and into 2021 where container shipping was significantly impacted. How will you accept, mitigate, remediate, or remove these risks?

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COVID-19 – A massive failure of risk management?

Plan B Consulting

I wanted to write about risk management and what I perceive is a massive failure of the process and implementation in ensuring that organisations were ready for a pandemic. If risk management has any purpose, it is to identify the most severe and likely risk to an organisation and then something can be done to mitigate the risk.

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COVID-19 – A massive failure of risk management?

Plan B Consulting

I wanted to write about risk management and what I perceive is a massive failure of the process and implementation in ensuring that organisations were ready for a pandemic. Pandemic an identified risk. They didn’t seem to be prepared for even the most obvious issues associated with a pandemic.

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Common Misconceptions about Disaster

Emergency Planning

As the transport and operation of field hospitals tends to be expensive and logistically challenging, in some cases it may be more efficient to attempt to restore or augment existing hospitals in the area, even if they are significantly damaged. In addition, technology is a potential source of vulnerability as well as a means of reducing it.