Sonntag, 8. Februar 2009

Resilience taken for advantage


Yossi Sheffi
Director, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics; Professor, Engineering Systems, MIT

CTL Director Yossi Sheffi discusses his book The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage, in which he argues that a company’s survival and prosperity depend more on what it does before a disruption occurs than on the actions it takes as the event unfolds. Dr. Sheffi focuses not only on security but on corporate resilience - the ability to bounce back from such disruptions - and how to turn that resilience into competitive advantage.

You can really avoid disruptions in the (organizational) system seeing and act on the "weak signs".

How could this be used for building some SD model to make the right policies seeable?