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Polycrisis, Antifragility, and What’s Missing from Digital Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

There’s an older term now being applied to supply chains for this capacity: antifragility. If organizations expand their capacity to learn they grow stronger with each crisis. Technology enables learning together and increases organizational capacity to make the best decisions across the chain, not just for their link.

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Conflict Worsens Global Food Insecurity

Enterra Insights

Considering that the world’s population is increasing by one billion people every 11 to 12 years, losing any source of food is big problem. Al-Assad deliberately used starvation as a military tactic in Syria’s on-going civil war. .”[1] Recently, it seems like the world is filled with violence and conflict.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2016

Talking Logistics

How will transportation, inventory, and sourcing policy decisions change in light of this cheap oil environment? Terrorism : The recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, coupled with the ongoing instability in Syria and Iraq and the spread of ISIS, have raised the risk for terrorism-related supply chain disruptions in 2016.

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I Will Be Wrong Again: Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2017

Talking Logistics

The answers to those questions and more could significantly impact supply chain strategies, everything from sourcing decisions to network design, which is why my prediction from two years ago — that more companies will start treating Supply Chain Design as a continuous business process — is now a critical necessity.