Tag Archives: Supply chains

Cyber resilience is your business: How to improve it(Forbes)

The recent exploitation of vulnerabilities in Ivanti’s VPN solutions underscores the growing risk organizations face across their software supply chains. And the situation is not getting any better. According to research firm Cybersecurity Ventures, the annual cost of software supply chain attacks on businesses worldwide will rise to $60 billion by 2027, up from $46 billion. Gartner predicts that 45% of […]
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Facing increasing pressure from customers, some miners are switching to renewable energy (TDN)

Mining operations account for some 4%-7% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to global consulting firm McKinsey & Company. But some miners are moving to reduce use of fossil fuels in extracting and refining, partly due to pressure from downstream customers that want more sustainable supply chains. Click here to read the full article

New GIBS faculty research outputs

Since the beginning of 2023, a number of research articles have been published by our faculty and research associates. Below, a selection of these publications The impact of remuneration governance on chief executive officer overpayment by Mark Bussin, Albert Wocke and Benno Deysel. South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 26(1), 1-10. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajems.v26i1.4860 BACKGROUND: […]
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How A.I. and DNA are unlocking the mysteries of global supply chains (NYtimes)

Firms are turning to advanced technologies to help answer a surprisingly tricky question: Where do products really come from? At a cotton gin in the San Joaquin Valley, in California, a boxy machine helps to spray a fine mist containing billions of molecules of DNA onto freshly cleaned Pima cotton. That DNA will act as […]
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