The Power of Resilience: How the Best Companies Manage the Unexpected (MIT Press)
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (977 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B015F05SWO |
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| Number of Pages | : | 262 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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(Hau L. Rose, Executive Chairman, BNSF Railway Company)The Power of Resilience is a brilliant book that should be read by all business leaders in order to capably manage risks and create growth in the new global economy. Lee, Thoma Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University)Resilience building is as critical as risk management for organizations operating in a dynamic global economy. (Chris Sultemeier, Executive Vice President, Logistics, Walmart)Supply chains -- logistics, transportation, and shipping -- have been around through
Supply chain risk management, Sheffi shows, is a balancing act between taking on the risks involved in new products, new markets, and new processes -- all crucial for growth -- and the resilience created by advanced risk management.. In this book, Yossi Sheffi shows why modern vulnerabilities call for innovative processes and tools for creating and embedding corporate resilience and risk management. A catastrophic earthquake is followed by a tsunami that inundates the coastline, and around the globe manufacturing comes to a standstill. State-of-the-art
Araceli said Four Stars. Great book. "Interesting, compelling!" according to Amazon User. 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
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 cofounded five successful companies. 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.. Yossi Sheffi is Elisha Gray II