Learning From the Post Earthquake Resiliency of Japanese Companies 
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 3:28PM
Keith Erwood in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Earthquake, Japan, Japan Earthquake, Japan tsunami, Japanese Business Resiliency, Japanese Recovery

Some of the larger businesses that were impacted by the recent Japanese earthquake were able to overcome the disaster and recover remarkably quickly.

How did some companies recover so fast? By being both prepared and working with resources outside of their companies, such as vendors and building the redundancy into the manufacturing and supply chain processes.

In a recent article written by Michael Koploy titled The Post-Tsunami Supply Chain All-Stars | Who Recovered the Fastest and How? he details how some of these companies overcame the worst earthquake in Japanese history.

Check out his article to glean more insight in what these companies did differently and learn what you should be doing at your business.

 

 

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