This week’s topics
Factors Impacting Venture Viability
- Regulatory and legal compliance
- Market dynamics and volatility
- Supply chain bottlenecks
- Risk appraisal and contingency planning
- Risk Management Capabilities | SCMT 4653
- Risk Hedging Strategies | SCMT 4653
- Supply Chain Risk Management in 2024
What you will be able to do
- 2.1 Explain opportunity analysis and environmental analysis of a venture in business.
- 2.3 Explain factors impacting on a venture in business.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: explain opportunity analysis and environmental analysis of a venture in business.
Study materials
Videos
- Risk Management Capabilities | SCMT 4653 · YouTube · Walton College Supply Chain Management · 7 min · for registered students
- Risk Hedging Strategies | SCMT 4653 · YouTube · Walton College Supply Chain Management · 11 min · for registered students
- Supply Chain Risk Management in 2024 · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 51 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Entrepreneurship, ch. 13: Business Structure Options: Legal, Tax, and Risk Issues · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 501–538 · for registered students
- Risks and Global Supply Chains: What We Know and What We Need to Know · PDF · NBER, article · for registered students
- Introduction to Logistics, ch. 9: Risks and Challenges · Reading · Other, textbook chapter; PDF pp. 145–159 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
