Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Jan 27, 2012, 3:16 am
Today is my last day at work as Researcher at Møreforsking Molde. It is a sad day, because I am leaving a very exciting field, namely supply chain risk, but also a joyous day, because I am returning to a field I left 5 years ago, namely transport vulnerability. From here I head off into a new direc...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Jan 24, 2012, 9:57 pm
Celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2012, the European Transport Conference or ETC is unique in Europe, attracting many transport practitioners and researchers to an event where they can find in-depth presentations on policy issues, best practice and research findings across a broad spectrum of tran...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Jan 23, 2012, 12:43 am
Are economic imbalances and social inequality risk reversing the gains of globalization? Should we shift our concern from environmental risks to socioeconomic risks? Will further economic shocks and social upheaval roll back the progress globalization has brought? How well are the world’s institut...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Jan 3, 2012, 7:40 am
This is a conference that you shouldn’t miss if transport reliability and vulnerability is what interestes you: The 5th International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability (INSTR), will be held in Hong Kong from December 18 to 19, 2012. The INSTR series is the premier gathering for the w...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Dec 30, 2011, 6:02 pm
Another blogging year is almost over and it’s time to recap some of the ups and downs of 2011. Did I reach my goals? What drove traffic to husdal.com? What were the most popular posts? What can I do to improve in 2012? These are just some of the timely questions every blogger should ask before sta...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Dec 29, 2011, 6:56 am
How to estimate the disruption risk exposure in a supply chain? That is the question asked by Ulf Paulsson, Carl-Henric Nilsson and Sten Wandel in their paper titled Estimation of disruption risk exposure, building on what Paulsson wrote in his PhD on the same subject. Here they develop a model that...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Dec 4, 2011, 1:50 am
For those of you who follow my blog on a regular basis, there hasn’t been a post for quite a while. That is because I am completely bogged down in work, and unfortunately it may be a while before there even is a next post. More importantly, however, is that I will be changing jobs and relocating i...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Oct 17, 2011, 3:13 am
Today’s supply chains circle the globe and form the backbone of world trade and a are major factor in the global economy, linking countries far from us as if they were our neighbors. The world is becoming smaller, no doubt. But this increasingly tighter connected world is also increasingly da...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Oct 5, 2011, 4:20 am
Supply Chain Risk Management is a area that has seen a significant growth in recent years. However, there is diverse perception of research in supply chain risk because these researchers have approached this area from different domains. A recent article on Researchers’ Perspectives on Supply Chain...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Sep 20, 2011, 6:17 pm
Being the editor of a blog that deals heavily with risk management and business continuity, let alone blog continuity, it is only natural that I also care about the security and continuity of my blog. That is why a couple of months ago I decided to protect my website with Incapsula, While I have bee...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Sep 17, 2011, 5:05 pm
Many business owners will have come across the term business continuity, and many supply chain owners will have come across the term supply chain risk management. However, the term supply chain continuity is still a rather unexplored topic, gathering mere 45000 search results on Google, while busi...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Sep 15, 2011, 4:32 pm
What is supply chain risk? What are typical supply chain risks? This is the 2011 version of my annual lecture on Supply Chain Risk for the MSc in Supply Chain Management and Industrial Logistics at Molde University College, Norway, held today, and this is the fourth consecutive year that I am giving...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Sep 9, 2011, 2:32 pm
In a previous post on the Retail SCM Summit 2011 I mentioned that China as a rising economic powerhouse and on its way to become the world’s second largest consumer market after the United States. With a large population of fashion and brand conscious consumers increasing their spending as their i...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Aug 31, 2011, 5:16 pm
Striking gold in the blogosphere. Or was is just dust? This month’s blog is aptly titled “Gold or Dust” and is based on a true story, namely the academic journey of Charlie Newnham, who is studying for her MSc in Resilience at the University of Cranfield, UK. I wasn’t even aware that such a ...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Aug 28, 2011, 5:02 am
Hosted by news anchor Becky Anderson, the CNN Gateway is a series that goes behind the scenes of the world’s major transport hubs, revealing the logistics that keep goods and people moving. We may not always give it much thought, but suply chains are all around us, and logistics is what makes the ...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Aug 22, 2011, 4:19 pm
What is risk, and how can it be expressed? Should risk be defined through probabilities or should risk be defined through uncertainties? That is what Eyvind Aven and Terje Aven are attempting to explain in their paper On how to understand and express enterprise risk. In the paper, they claim that di...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Aug 16, 2011, 4:52 pm
Are business schools bad for business? I recently came across a very interesting article by the late Sumatra Ghoshal, who blamed business schools for the demise in management practices because they have become obsessed with teaching maximizing shareholder value at the expense of everything else.  ...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Aug 13, 2011, 6:26 am
What happens when theory meets practice? Theory fails and practice wins? In academia, more often than not, developing new groundbreaking theories is what is worth pursuing, because it is academically challenging, let alone meriting, despite these theories being practically irrelevant or not o...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Aug 8, 2011, 3:58 am
Are you looking for the latest in supply chain risk research? Usually, newsletters from the International Supply Chain Risk Management Network (ISCRiM) are the place to find it, and finally, here’s the first and hopefully not the only newsletter for 2011, like in 2010, when there was only one. Th...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Aug 6, 2011, 6:44 pm
More than 500-page heavy and laden with real-life examples and thoroughly calculated details, Designing and Managing the Supply Chain by David Simchi-Levi, Philip M Kaminsky and Edith Simchi-Levi this an excellent textbook that will teach you much more than just supply chain design and management. T...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Jul 29, 2011, 6:13 am
How time flies. Another month has passed and it’s time for another blog review. This month it’s RISKCZAR’s BLOG by Trevor Levine, a blog that is based on his almost 20 years of experience in financial, operational and enterprise risk management (ERM), and process improvement. In other words, ...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Jul 26, 2011, 3:41 pm
What does it mean to be a resilient organization? That is the topic of  The Resilient Organization, written by Liisa Välikangas and subtitled How Adaptive Cultures Thrive Even when Strategy Fails. Here, resilience is more than just the ability to meet adversity; resilience as Välikangas sees it,...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Jul 22, 2011, 4:17 pm
In September and October 2009 the Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed 500 company executives with responsibility for risk management, and selected from companies across Asia-Pacific, North America and Europe, in order to understand how companies are being affected by supply-chain risk, and how they...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Jul 19, 2011, 4:22 pm
China. Perhaps the biggest arena for future development in logistics and supply chain management? It could be, because China is a rising economic powerhouse and on its way to become the world’s second largest consumer market after the United States. This means that domestic supply chains will ...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Jul 15, 2011, 6:07 am
We are living in a new world of risk that is making this world unprecedentedly complex and challenging for corporations, institutions and states alike. Supply chains are no exception, and in our quest for greater efficiency and greater choice, are we really developing robust global transport network...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Jul 12, 2011, 4:37 am
What do businesses in Scandinavia fear the most? That is what Nordic insurance giant If Insurance decided to find out. So they asked 400 managers in major companies in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland the question “What kind of risk or threat do you think that publicly listed companies in your ...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Jul 7, 2011, 5:01 pm
Low-cost countries. A dream for some and a nightmare for other others. What are typical supply chain risks in low-cost countries and how can they be managed? That is the topic of the PhD dissertation by Holger Köhler, now available as a book: Supply Chain Risiken im Low Cost Country Sourcing: Reduk...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Jul 1, 2011, 4:57 pm
Regular readers of my blog will remember that a couple of weeks ago I posted about my website security and business or blog continuity efforts after signing up with CloudFlare for website protection and acceleration. While CloudFlare has been good to me so far, I now believe that I have found someth...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Jun 28, 2011, 5:03 pm
Another month has passed, and it’s time for another dive into the blogosphere. This month’s blog is a blog for anyone who works with or is exposed to risk, and it’s a blog full of personal insights, funny stories and profound wisdom. Slightly belated, due to the recent arrival of my baby ...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Jun 26, 2011, 11:28 am
What has been achieved, or rather: written, during a decade of academic research in the Supply Chain Management (SCM) field? A lot, obviously, but despite the considerable number of academic contributions, the literature is still very fragmented and although several studies purport to discuss suppl...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Jun 19, 2011, 4:12 pm
Supply chain disturbances and supply chain disruptions. Not the same and very different from each other. The former can be managed and solved within an established supply chain, the latter often requires establishing a new supply network. That is why Phil Greening and Christine Rutherford assume a n...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Jun 15, 2011, 4:34 am
What are the current gaps that waiting to be closed in supply chain risk management research? Here is a paper that claims to have the answer: Identifying risk issues and research advancements in supply chain risk management, co-written by Ou Tang and S. Nurmaya Musa. Not only does this paper investi...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Jun 13, 2011, 1:29 am
Are you are taking radically different actions than your peers when it comes to supply chain risk management? If so, Marsh Consulting thinks you are an innovator and blazing the trail for others to follow. At least, that’s what they say in their report Stemming the Rising Tide of Supply Chain Risk...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Jun 12, 2011, 8:50 am
Normally, when finding topics for this blog, it is I who have to seek out and find the established or ongoing research that I want to promote. Occasionally, ongoing research finds me and asks for help in spreading the word, and most of the time I am more than happy to oblige. This time it is Peter T...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Jun 7, 2011, 4:32 pm
Finally, here it is, the 3rd Supply Chain Risk Management Seminar 2011 to be held in Barcelona, Spain, 26-27th October this year. Ever since I first blogged about the very first seminar in 2008, I have eagerly awaited the annual conference announcements, so that I could promote it here on husdal.com...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Jun 6, 2011, 2:45 am
Supply Chain Risk Management has emerged as an important source of competitive advantage and an effective method of reducing vulnerability in a supply chain. One vulnerability or risk that is often overlooked are product design changes to an already existing manufacturing process. That is the topic ...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Jun 3, 2011, 3:05 am
Financial key performance indicators are valuable because they capture the economic consequences of business decisions. Many of these business decisions are made as supply chain decisions, but many supply chain managers are perhaps not fully aware of how the supply chain metrics they juggle in their...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - Jun 1, 2011, 12:39 pm
Obviously, selecting the right third-party logistics provider (3PL) for your supply chain is an important decision in supply chain risk management. Here, trust and commitment are two highly interrelated notions that stimulate and facilitate customer loyalty and a long-lasting buyer-supplier relation...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - May 28, 2011, 6:50 am
Have you heard of CloudFlare? I hadn’t either until two weeks ago, but as a business blogger, CloudFlare should be among the first on the list of services to consider.  In a previous post comparing delivery speed in logistics with the page loading speed of a blog I described how I used Amazon Clo...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - May 26, 2011, 4:55 pm
It’s time for another blog review, and this month’s featured blog has been on my radar for quite some time. Looking at the date stamp on the original draft, it has actually been on my mind (or actually not) since 14 November 2009, that is 18 months almost to the day. It is Tim Cummins’ Commitm...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - May 24, 2011, 2:09 am
Rewind your thoughts one year: Iceland. Volcano eruption. Air travel. Then look at today’s news. Are we facing yet another volcanic ash cloud crisis? It would seem so, as airlines have already begun cancelling flights in and out of Northern Europe, including Scotland. The big question is, have we ...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - May 23, 2011, 6:39 pm
What happens when a business is disabled for a length of time? What are the impacts on its profitability, service delivery, and employees? What are the flow-on effects to the broader community? What are the key attributes that can help a business to bounce back or bounce forward from a disruption? T...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - May 22, 2011, 6:33 am
Sought after by polar explorers and long awaited by the shipping community: The Northern Sea Route. Year by year the Arctic summer ice cap is melting  and the race will be soon be on to take part in what is perhaps the last and final adventure in the development of maritime logistics and global shi...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - May 19, 2011, 12:28 am
Customs. A real hassle and a nuisance at times, but also a necessary evil in international trade. “Evil” is perhaps the wrong word here, although having been questioned by customs officers at Melbourne airport once, playing the Devil’s Advocate seemed to be their favorite game, so evil isn’t...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - May 17, 2011, 11:00 am
Trade Compliance and Export Control are not just buzzwords in global supply chain. They represent significant risks. Breach of trade rules and regulations can have serious ramifications for businesses, ranging from mere fines to loss of contract, not to mention loss of reputation, and even bankruptc...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - May 15, 2011, 6:04 pm
Historically, third-party logistics providers, or 3PLs, provided traditional logistics services, such as transportation and warehouse management and nothing more than that. However, the increased volume and scope of services demanded from 3PLs have given rise to their changing role, where today they...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - May 13, 2011, 4:22 am
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about the flexibility of the logistics provider and how the transport provider plays an important role in supply chain operations, ensuring that they run smoothly and are able to move goods quickly from one place to another. However, relying on a third-party provider ...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - May 9, 2011, 4:45 am
Following up last weeks post on a 2003 UK report on supply chain resilience, here is another “spin-off ” from the supply chain research done at Cranfield University: Building the resilient supply chain, written by Martin Christopher and Helen Peck in 2004. Since its inception this article has fo...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - May 4, 2011, 4:04 pm
This blog is about supply chain risk, business continuity and transport vulnerability, and while I have blogged profusely about supply chain resilience in a vast number of posts over the last 3 1/2 years, citing journal articles, book, papers and research reports en masse, one major reference – pe...
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Jan H. posted an article on Jan Husdal - May 3, 2011, 7:38 am
Today’s post is a review of a conference paper written by Francesco Longo and Tuncer Ören in 2008 and presented at a venue where I not would look for papers on supply chain risk: The  European Modeling & Simulation Symposium. The paper is titled Supply chain vulnerability and resilience: a state...
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