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Effective Disruption Management Seminar: Additional Reading
September 8, 2005
Bechtel Center, Stanford University
Disruptions—caused by natural disasters or unexpected events—are occurring with increasing frequency. Their disastrous impact can affect society by lives lost, displacements, and financial cost; and on corporate supply chains by shortages, shipments delays, customer dissatisfaction, and revenue losses. This one-day seminar will feature speakers from academia and both the private sector and global humanitarian organizations to share their knowledge, experiences, lessons and leverage each other's best practices and principles.
The readings listed on this page will provide articles and books related to this topic.
Selected Articles
Additional reading material has been selected by Jackson Library Staff. Inclusion below does not imply University endorsement of the ideas expressed.
Transport magnate delivers lifeline Lynn Fritz connects tsunami victims with aid. MSNBC, January 2005
Disaster-relief software developed by San Francisco shipping magnate Lynn Fritz's charity and rolled out just four months ago is playing a key role in efforts to aid tsunami victims across southern Asia.
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How to Deliver on the Promises. Financial Times, January 7, 2005
Humanitarian agencies are learning lessons from business in bringing essential supplies to regions hit by the tsunami, says Sarah Murray.
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Private sector initiative solves disaster relief "bottleneck". World Economic Forum Newsletter, January 4, 2005
After reporting that so much unsolicited relief assistance was arriving in South-East Asia that airports in some of the hardest hit areas could not handle the traffic, the United Nations has turned to a little-known, but highly effective private sector group for assistance: the Disaster Resource Network, an initiative of the World Economic Forum.
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Building a Secured and Resilient Supply Network. Supply Chain Management Review, September/October 2003
The supply network is inherently vulnerable to disruption, and the failure of any one element in it could cause the whole network to fail.
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A Logistician's Plea. Forced Migration Review, September 2003
As a logistician, have you ever first learned of a new project when the purchase requisitions appeared on your desk? Or received a vehicle request 20 minutes before it was urgently required?
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Higher Supply Chain Security with Lower Cost. Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. July 2003
Supply chain security has become a major concern to the private and public sector, after the disastrous event of September 11, 2001.
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Logistics and the Effective Delivery of Humanitarian Relief. The Fritz Institute, 2005
To better understand the dynamics of the humanitarian logistics and supply hains in the field, Fritz Institute initiated a survey of field logisticians from the largest international organizations participating in the relief efforts.
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Selected Books
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Disruption Management: Framework, Models and Applications |
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The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage |
Selected Journal
Forced Migration Issue 18 [ PDF 1.16MB]
Forced Migration Issue 22 [ PDF 1.73MB]
Selected Website
