Supply Chain · Resilience · Component

The failure points

Where a single failure stops supply, each carrying a status of accepted or mitigated rather than merely noted.

The deliverable

What it is

Efficiency and resilience trade against each other continuously, whether or not anyone names it. Every buffer removed makes the ordinary case cheaper and the unusual case worse.

A failure point that has been consciously accepted is a managed risk. One that has merely been noticed is not.

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What it is made of

Each element is a constituent part of the component. Follow one to see the attributes it carries.

  1. The points

    Each place where a single failure would stop supply.

    3 attributes: Failure point · Type · Affects

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  2. The impact

    What would happen, and how quickly.

    3 attributes: Time to impact · Recovery time · Cost

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  3. The status

    Whether the risk is accepted, mitigated or unaddressed.

    3 attributes: Status · Accepted by · Mitigation

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An accepted risk needs a name against it. Otherwise acceptance is indistinguishable from not having looked.