Supply Chains and Product Design
This is an interesting paper and it very much touches on the x-factor of why some products are successful and others are not. If you were to read a classic book on micro economics or finance, success could be measured as the ability to enjoy economies of scale by identifying a product corridor for yielding a stable operating margin that can grow functionally as the company does. Product design disrupts this thinking and is perhaps the real x-factor on why some companies that
Agriculture Supply Chain Security
The food and agriculture centre for the United Nations has released an interesting paper on Agricultural Supply Chain Security and the outcomes of climate related catastrophes. There are a couple of diagrams in the document which are either deeply concerning or worth pondering on in further detail, including this one on the frequency of disasters through time. The impact of disasters on Food Security [LINK] One does wonder whether the inherent risk or frequency of catastrophe
