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Uncertainty, tempo, and the OODA loop

We live in a rapidly evolving world. Our supply chains need a framework to help us evolve along with it.
February 20, 2023
Steve Geary
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We live in a rapidly evolving world. Our supply chains need a framework to help us evolve along with it. 


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Global risk and the cost of a scoop of ice cream

Prices are skyrocketing. Risks are rising. It’s time for everybody to re-examine the trade-offs in their supply chain.
December 12, 2022
Steve Geary
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Prices are skyrocketing. Risks are rising. It’s time for everybody to re-examine the trade-offs in their supply chain.


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Let’s not forget Afghanistan

The refugee problem is a network breakdown. A large-scale network breakdown. And human beings are suffering the consequences.
October 17, 2022
Steve Geary
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The refugee problem is a network breakdown. A large-scale network breakdown. And human beings are suffering the consequences.


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Whiplash: supply chains battered around the world

Chaos and uncertainty—from the war in the Ukraine to bird flu to COVID lockdowns—continue to shock our supply chains. How can we make sure we are not ill-prepared for the next disruption?
May 15, 2022
Steve Geary
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Chaos and uncertainty—from the war in the Ukraine to bird flu to COVID lockdowns—continue to shock our supply chains. How can we make sure we are not ill-prepared for the next disruption? 


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It’s a mad, mad, mad world

Once considered a rare possibility, “black swan” events are sending global supply chains into chaos.
February 18, 2022
Steve Geary
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Once considered a rare possibility, “black swan” events are sending global supply chains into chaos.


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Najlla’s story and America’s shame

The withdrawal from Afghanistan was a logistics disaster, and one that put a friend in harm’s way.
December 15, 2021
Steve Geary
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The withdrawal from Afghanistan was a logistics disaster, and one that put a friend in harm’s way.


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We’re not in Kansas anymore

Markets—both on the demand side and the supply side—are shifting. We need to figure out how to react, in real time.
October 18, 2021
Steve Geary
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Markets—both on the demand side and the supply side—are shifting. We need to figure out how to react, in real time.


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Uncle Sam wants you … to have a resilient supply chain

President Biden’s recent executive order seeks to revitalize U.S. supply chains and reverse a decades-long trend of offshoring.
May 12, 2021
Steve Geary
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President Biden’s recent executive order seeks to revitalize U.S. supply chains and reverse a decades-long trend of offshoring.
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Occam's Razor and the Corona Virus

Ask any scientist anchored in the real world, and they posit that the simplest of competing theories is preferred to the more complex.
January 24, 2021
Ask any scientist anchored in the real world, and they posit that the simplest of competing theories is preferred to the more complex.
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The idea is that the flapping of a butterfly’s wings in Argentina could cause a tornado in Texas three weeks later.

Butterflies are pretty, but they are hell on a supply chain.

The idea is that the flapping of a butterfly’s wings in Argentina could cause a tornado in Texas three weeks later.
June 27, 2020
Steve Geary
Supply chains are not the closed systems that macroeconomists posit. There are always unexpected external influences at the microeconomic level.
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