Submitted by Daniel Dumke on Fri, 2012-04-06 20:46
This week I received my first full-version feedback on my PhD-thesis. A big thanks to my reviewer! Luckily I do not have too many adjustments to make, so I will use time during the easter holidays to commit the changes. I hope to be done by Tuesday, and I already got an appointment with my Professor on Wednesday, to officially hand over the dissertation.
After the last more general entries on managers perception of risk and measuring SC performance I wanted to make a detour back to the basics.
Simulation is one of the tools, which can be used for analyzing supply chain dynamics, optimization and to support corporate decision making.
Submitted by Daniel Dumke on Wed, 2011-12-21 16:44
The number of daily visitor slowly declines, even the comment spam goes down. It seems that (at least for some parts of the world) the “quiet” time of the year has begun.
And for me this is a great moment to look back. The same time last year I just celebrated my first blog anniversary!
Submitted by Daniel Dumke on Fri, 2012-03-30 09:28
This week I finally finished the first complete version of my dissertation. All graphs and tables now are now built using the same template and I finally decided on the final typeface: For the main texts it’s Gyre Bonum which is built on the Bookman typeface) and for the headlines I choose Bera Serif a nice slab serif font.
Submitted by Daniel Dumke on Mon, 2012-06-11 13:39
We are back from Norway. I had a great time there. The first week stayed at a small cabin at the Vindafjord (first picture) later we visited Jotunheimen National Park (second picture), Oslo and Bergen.
Overall I was really surprised by the magnificent fjords, mountains and nice people.
In the United States May 2008 was declared to be “Resilience Month” with several congressional hearings on the topic of how to improve organizational resilience on a societal level.
Yossi Sheffi from the MIT is one of the leading researchers on supply chain resilience and he was part of the hearings as well.
Resilience developed to one of the dominating concepts in supply chain risk management and this review takes a different look on corporate resilience by viewing it from a psychological perspective.
Why do some people and some companies buckle under pressure? And what makes others bend and ultimately bounce back?
Today I review “How Resilience works” by Diane Coutu, a summary of which can be found here.
Submitted by Daniel Dumke on Tue, 2009-12-08 18:54
Paper
Published In:
SCRM Blog
Year:
2010
I finally received my credentials for the University Intranet so I am now able to start using some databases and get access to more articles online. But there are several other resources about Supply Chain Management online.
