Risk and Resilience

Guest Voices: Solving the ‘Soft Skills’ Gap in Supply-Chain Management

November 07, 2017

The Wall Street Journal

MIT's Yossi Sheffi writes that a focus on technology has left workers and key companies short of abilities critical to organizational success, and schools need to fill the gap.

Mitigating the High Risk of Low-Cost Items

August 01, 2016

Inside Supply Management Magazine

Low-spend items may be a lesser priority for suppliers, yet critical components for the companies buying them.

Harvard Business Review

The Harvard Business Review Supply Chain Strategy

Harvard Business Review: Building a Resilient Supply Chain (October, 2005).

Leading Academic Discusses How Business Resiliency Requirements Have Changed in the Past 10 Years

December 16, 2015

Supply Chain Quarterly

Dr. Yossi Sheffi, a professor at MIT, said that companies have made great strides in improving the resiliency of their business, but that they still have a long way to go, especially in the area of cyber-security.

Dissemination of good practices for resilience in Supply Chain Management

Grands Auteurs

January 17, 2017

Throughout his career, Yossi Sheffi has been interested in many important topics of logistics and Supply Chain Management (SCM). Yossi Sheffi is best known for having disseminated and popularized the concept and practices of resilience among managers, students and academia. But, how has Yossi Sheffi's research evolved over the course of his career? In his methodology?

Best Business Books 2016

Strategy + Business

2016

Yossi Sheffi’s The Power of Resilience: How the Best Companies Manage the Unexpected, which stands head and shoulders above this year’s crop of the best business books on strategy, does an excellent job of covering\ the most important of those risks as well as best practices in everything from preparation to monitoring to drawing up crisis playbooks. And it does so while focusing on a relatively obscure corporate competence: supply chains.

Guest Voices: Black Swans and the Risks in Supply Chains

October 28, 2015

Wall Street Journal

When safeguarding their supply chains against disruptions, companies commonly assign the highest priority to events that happen relatively often and hit hard. Focusing on those with the highest likelihood and the greatest potential impact certainly seems like a logical approach to risk management.

Except that these are not the worst perils that companies face.

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