Now that you have reviewed the potential usefulness of the four perspective on supply chain sustainability, and you have seen a selection of examples and cases from practice, to wrap up this course, let’s do a self-assessment. Depending on the size of the organisation that you work for, and depending on your role and level, you may be very familiar with your context. But even then, we argue, it is good practice to assess, or re-assess, the performance of the organisation from these four perspectives.
45 minutes
Taking into explicit consideration components of the four perspectives that we have discussed in this course, you should now analyse your organisation. Use this Excel spreadsheet to do the following:
Based on the rankings that you have given your organisation, the spreadsheet will return an outcome that a specific aspect is either ‘fine’, ‘needs to be watched’ or whether ‘action needs to be taken’.
For any aspect that is not ‘fine’, do the following:
Taking into consideration your initial analysis (under 1 and 2) and your explanation and interpretations of the outcomes (under 3 and 4), now do the following:
There is no discussion for this activity.