This week’s topics
Strategic Environmental Synthesis
- Quantitative SWOT and TOWS matrix
- Internal-external environmental alignment
- Risk exposure index
- Supply network resilience planning
- Utilizing SWOT, PESTEL, and Five Forces Analyses in Your Strategic Planning
- Supply Chain Risk Management in 2024
- MITx SC3x 2016 - Hangout 4A - Intro to Supply Chain Resilience
What you will be able to do
- 3.4 Assess a logistics business’s internal environment.
- 4.3 Assess a logistics business’s external environment.
- 4.4 Apply a technique to quantify a logistics business’s external environment.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: assess a logistics business’s internal environment.
Study materials
Videos
- Utilizing SWOT, PESTEL, and Five Forces Analyses in Your Strategic Planning · YouTube · C12 Business Forums · 8 min · for registered students
- Supply Chain Risk Management in 2024 · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 51 min · for registered students
- MITx SC3x 2016 - Hangout 4A - Intro to Supply Chain Resilience · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 23 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Principles of Management, ch. 8: Strategic Analysis: Understanding a Firm’s Competitive Environment · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 233–260 · for registered students
- Introduction to Logistics, ch. 9: Risks and Challenges · Reading · Other, textbook chapter; PDF pp. 145–159 · for registered students
- Risks and Global Supply Chains: What We Know and What We Need to Know · PDF · NBER, article · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
