For the past five years Edward Bryant and Simon Haslett of the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia, have propounded the idea that a storm surge may have been wrongly accused.

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Companies may deploy lots of powerful technology, but a close examination of successful supply chains shows they also pay a lot of attention to their employees, says John Gattorna of the Centre for Supply Chain Research at Australia's University of Wollongong.

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