88 Cases. One Framework.
Supply chain governance failures and successes, analyzed through four interconnected frameworks.
Every case in this repository illustrates how durable competitive advantage actually forms — and how it dissolves. Across 88 company cases spanning four decades and forty industries, a single pattern emerges: governance architecture determines whether pressure builds moats or destroys them.
Each case is analyzed through the frameworks that genuinely illuminate it:
- The 6-ER Framework — six dimensions of supply chain competitiveness (applies to all 88)
- Pressure Moat Theory — how moats form under existential pressure (applies to 72)
- AwaCourage — the awareness-to-action discipline (applies to 40)
- K12 Life Architecture — the 12-attitude decision architecture (applies to 20)
Not every framework applies to every case. Forcing four frameworks onto every case would produce weak analysis. Each case uses only the frameworks that genuinely fit — this is the discipline the frameworks teach, applied to their own presentation.
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Repository at a Glance
| Total cases | 88 |
|---|---|
| Success cases | 62 |
| Failure cases | 19 |
| Counterfactual analyses | 4 |
| Risk / Complex | 3 |
| Industries covered | 40+ |
| Geographies | Global (US, EU, China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea) |
| Time span | 1987 – 2026 |
Reading the Cards
- The Decision — what the organization did
- The Pattern — how frameworks see the decision
- The Learning — one quotable governance lesson
- Book Link — where the full analysis lives
All 88 Cases
Why These 88 Cases
Eighty-eight cases drawn from supply chain governance across four decades. Each case either demonstrates a framework working — or demonstrates what happens when governance architecture fails to keep pace with the decisions an organization is actually making.
The cases appear in their short-form marketing format here. Full analysis — the evidence, the mechanism, the decision architecture, the counterfactual discussion — lives in the forthcoming books:
- Pressure Moat: How TSMC Built What Capital Cannot Buy (Volume 1, forthcoming)
- Supply Chain Governance in Industry 5.0: The 6-ER Framework for Strategic Decision-Making (forthcoming)