As disruptive as the Japan disaster was to the auto industry's Japanese transplants in North America, for example, non-Japanese carmakers were relatively unaffected.
In addition, we have to build more resilient systems in vulnerable communities to mitigate the disruptive influence of natural disasters, fragility, conflict, and violence".
In recent years, supply chains are more susceptible to variety of disruptive events, including natural disasters, man-made attacks, and common failures due to their complexity, globalization, and interconnected structures.
Still, the great lesson of floods past on the Red River, and especially from the devastating flood of 1997 in Grand Forks, an hour north of Fargo, is that big federal money for permanent flood abatement, and the local political will to support such disruptive projects, flows only where disaster goes.
Many researchers have analyzed the effect of disruptive events, such as natural disasters and economic and market forces, on global supply chains.
Disruptive events triggered by natural disasters, man-made accidents, or violent attacks can lead to significant consequences and losses for networked infrastructure systems.
These disruptive businesses proved to be a disaster.
Disruptive events, whether malevolent attacks, natural disasters, manmade accidents, or common failures, can have significant widespread impacts when they lead to the failure of network components and ultimately the larger network itself.
Even in the best, no-political-system disaster scenario.The era of disruptive BRIC ascendence is over.
As Scott Anthony wrote, "Asking two incumbents to work together to create a disruptive business seemed like a recipe for disaster".
