Learning From Toys: Lessons In Managing Supply Chain Risk from the Toy Industry (2001) by M. Eric Johnson

Pages:  20;



M. Eric Johnson writes about the supply chain risks of the toy industry and provides ways to manage these risks. This document suggests that the solutions to manage the supply chain risks for the toy industry can be used by other industries with similarly short product lives.

The author classifies the risks into product demand risks and product supply risks. An example of a product demand risk in the toy industry is short product life and an example of a product supply risk is logistics capacity. The short product life can managed using a rolling mix strategy. Logistics capacity risks can be managed using supplemental outsourcing.


Click here to access the document.

Read More

Global Risks 2012 Report by the World Economic Forum's Risk Response Network

Pages:  64;

The World Economic Forum has published the seventh edition of the global risks report entitled the Global Risks 2012. It first features an insightful section that covers the cases which show the potential catastrophic events that could result because of the interconnectedness of the global risks. The three cases are:

1. Seeds of Dystopia:  This case highlights how societies worldwide could become chaotic as high unemployment rates among young people persist and as governments fail to maintain social provisions.
2. How Safe are our Safeguards:  Experts are concerned that our regulatory/governance systems will fail to manage today's complex systems including our financial and political systems.
3. The Dark Side of Connectivity:  Virtual hyperconnectivity creates enormous personal and organizational risks. Think of cyber attacks and the infamous/famous Wikileaks.

The report features 50 global risks in five categories which experts believe global leaders should be most concerned about. I will list three risks under each category. The first risk under each category is the most frequently chosen.

1. Economic Risks:  chronic fiscal imbalances, severe income disparity, prolonged infrastructure neglect.
2. Environmental Risks: greenhouse gas emissions, persistent extreme weather, irremediable pollution.
3. Geopolitical Risks:  global governance failure, terrorism, critical fragile states.
4. Societal Risks: unsustainable population growth, food shortage crises, backlash against globalization.
5. Technological Risks:  critical systems failure, cyber attacks, massive incident of fraud or theft.

Don't miss the section with the special report on The Great East Japan Earthquake (and tsunami) that killed nearly 20,000 people in March, 2011.

Click here to read the Global Risks 2012 report: http://www.weforum.org/reports/global-risks-2012-seventh-edition.

Read More

Reading Progress: Slow but Steady!

I started the challenge some time around November, 2011. Currently, I have finished reading 12 books, which total 2,801 pages. That is nowhere close to where I should be. The inertia at the beginning was tough but now that I'm a few months into the challenge, I'm gaining momentum. To stay on course, I need to have read about 200,000 pages (or about 500 books) by December 2012. You can tell I've got a lot of catching up to do. A luta continua!!! (The struggle continues!) Here is the list of the 12 books I finished reading.

Education by Ellen G. White

 Surviving and Thriving in Uncertainty: Creating the Risk Intelligent Enterprise by Frederick Funston and Stephen Wagner

Increasing National Resilience to Hazards and Disasters: The Perspective from the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi by The National Academies

The Fourth Dilemma - P. E. Barkhuizen

Miracles of My Life: Autobiography of J. N. Loughborough

Individuality in Religion by A. T. Jones

Success through Failure: Paradox of Design by Henry Petroski

Welfare Ministry by Ellen G. White

Reaping the Whirlwind by Joe Crews

What Every Adventist Should Know About 1888: An overview of events and issues that made the  Minneapolis General Conference session so important in church history by Arnold Valentin  Wallenkampf

Christ Our Righteousness by E. J. Waggoner

Risk Intelligence: Learning to Manage What We Don't Know by David Apgar

Read More

Surviving and Thriving in Uncertainty: Creating the Risk Intelligent Enterprise (2010) by Frederick Funston and Stephen Wagner

Pages:  305

Check for description and update soon.

Read More

Risk Intelligence: Learning to Manage What We Don't Know (2006) by David Apgar

Pages :  204


Check for description and update soon.

Read More

Why do a 1 Million Page Challenge?

So why would someone do such a challenge? What's the motivation behind this challenge? Am I just crazy? Don't worry, I'm not crazy! I've decided to do this because I believe it will enrich my life a lot so that I can achieve my long-term goals. Basically, I have huge goals for my life (those who know me fully understand what I mean... very huge goals) and I'm going to do whatever I can to see them to fruition. This challenge will help me achieve my objectives in the following areas:

1. I will launch my career with an amazing employer and I look forward to doing great things for both my employer and my employer's clients. This career gives me a wonderful opportunity to make a huge global impact. It is going to be exciting and challenging, I'm sure.
2. My goal is to be a global citizen who will be a lover of humanity in heart, soul, and action (strength). I want to turn the world upside down... positively. By the time I retire (if I retire) my efforts need to have impacted billions of lives. This sounds impossible so you may have gotten the hint that... I'm on a MISSION IMPOSSIBLE! 
3. I'm part of a global organization that has a mission to reach every individual on this planet. How do you reach 7,000,000,000 (billion) people and leave a positive impression/impact in their lives? This is another "mission impossible"! I hope that when I finish this challenge, I will have some answers that are actionable for this global organization. (Then again, in ten years we might be talking of 8 or 10 billion people.)

Anyway, by this time it should be clear that I have some major goals in life and I could use all the ideas I can get. I apologize that the ideas above are vague; it's not necessary to get into the details at this time.

Read More

Launch of the 1 Million Page Challenge Blog

In the next 10 years (actually 9 because 2011 is gone), I'm going to be busy but I will certainly enjoy it. I'll use this blog to reflect on the books, articles and journals I will be reading. Be warned, I read very different topics that most people. You might not find a single fiction book here... maybe! I like to stay in real life (kind of...). We'll see how this goes. Wish me well, please! :) Ok, I'm heading back to study for my tax quiz. Yes, I'm still a student... for a few more months.

Read More