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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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