Thanks for your comment and insights. The more I study supply chains, the more I realize that collaboration and cooperation are a major ingredient, much more so than processes, procedures and contracts.

Again, thank you for a great comment (I did some minor editing of a couple of grammar errors and spelling mistakes, I hope you don't mind). It is true that collaboration doesn't just happen, no matter what structures and process you put in place; even if the incentives are in place, unless the parties involved see a benefit, nothing is going to happen.

You're welcome. Risk is often seen as something quantitative. Here, it has a more philosophical touch: Uncertainty. Uncertainty cannot be grasped, and in fact, even uncertainty has some uncertainty to it. I think the important issue here is to keep in mind how the risk was calculated. That calculation in itself, and the premises you made when you did the risk calculation are as important as the risk itself. As to more references, I don't have more than are on my blog.

Not sure i can call myself a brother in BCP, but anyway...You're right about the fixation on plans. Very few seem to remember the words of General Eisenhower that "the plan is nothing, but planing is everything", or if they do remember, they certainly don't seem to live by it. In one of my previous jobs, when I was auditing the crisis management plans of local government authorities it struck me how many (authorities) that had hired external consultants to do the job (because they didn't have the capacity or manpower themselves). The plan itself was a brilliant piece of work, but there was no ownership to it, no personal reflections as to the actual local threats and how to handle them. Crisis management is an ongoing continuous process, it never ends, especially not after you have made a plan or complied with some regulations. The plan needs to be in he heads and hearts of every employee, not on the shelves of the management. That is only possible through, as you say it, training, testing and monitoring.

I don't have any algorithms at hand, but Networks and Algorithms is a good starting point.

You're most welcome. It's ben a while now, but I'm glad to see that it still catches some interest.