Military and Theory - This Week in Supply Chain Management (33 / 2011)

Since I am using a Mac to support me with my research, I use Papers by Mekentosj for the organization of my literature. Just last week they finally made a new feature available for the public. It is called Livfe and enables you to share and discuss papers in your library and discuss their content with your peers. Of course I already started a shared reading list on supply chain risk management; it is invite only at the moment, but if you are a user of Papers 2 drop me a note and I will send you one of my invitations.

News

• The Independent reports on supply chain problems supporting the British troops in Afghanistan and Libya, especially related to the supporting IT infrastructure used (Independent)

Blogs

• Bob from @Risk asks the question if the world is becoming more risky or not. I only partially agree with his conclusions, I much more think that risks keep on changing rather than increasing. But have a look yourself. (@Risk)
• Bob Ferrari writes on Supply Chain Consolidation Underway in Solar Panel Manufacturing. (Supply Chain Matters)
• Lastly, Jan talks about a great article on how research should learn from business to create better and more useful theories. (Jan Husdal)

Also have a look at my articles from this week:

• On Monday I wrote about how supply chain uncertainty affects competition between supply chains.
• On Wednesday I did a methodological analysis of a grounded theory study I found… with some insights into what could be done better next time.

I wish you a nice weekend!