The Power of Resilience: How the Best Companies Manage the Unexpected (MIT Press)
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (673 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262533634 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 488 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Araceli said Four Stars. Great book. Interesting, compelling! This book is quite an eye-opener. It takes the concepts and overlays them with compelling real world events to bring the whole thing home.. "Five Stars" according to Enrique Romero Motta. Excellent book on risk management
(Chris Sultemeier, Executive Vice President, Logistics, Walmart)Supply chains -- logistics, transportation, and shipping -- have been around throughout history, but never before has the supply chain been such an integral part of business. Yossi Sheffi does a great job of explaining why that transformation has taken place and the implications for doing business in the twenty-first century with the speed of challenges and risks facing our supply chains today. Smith, Chairman and CEO, FedEx Corporation)Yossi Sheffi is one of the most inventive and comprehensive thinkers in the supply chain and resiliency spaces. (Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum)Stands head and shoulders above this year's crop of the best business books on strategy (strategy+business) . Senior executives will gain unique insights and manage much more effectively having read it. This book is ti
He is the author of The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage and Logistics Clusters: Delivering Value and Driving Growth, both published by the MIT Press.. He has worked with leading manufacturers and logistics service providers around the world on operations and strategy issues and is an active entrepreneur, having founded or c
The interconnectedness of the global economy today means that unexpected events in one corner of the globe can ripple through the world's supply chain and affect customers everywhere. A catastrophic earthquake is followed by a tsunami that inundates the coastline, and around the globe manufacturing comes to a standstill. A strike halts shipments through a major port. In this book, Yossi Sheffi shows why modern vulnerabilities call for innovative processes and tools for creating and embedding corporate resilience and risk management. State-of-the-art passenger jets are grounded because of a malfunctioning part. Sheffi offers fascinating case studies that illustrate how