Read attached files carefully!!! BC: Ikeas Global Sourcing Challenge: Indian Rugs and child labor. Recommendation: Read the technical note to know the framework to build a resilient SC. Analyse the problem. First approach: The blame game: Why did this problem happen? Reactive approach: Establish an action plan in the short term to solve the problem and your communication strategy for stakeholders, suppliers, customers, employees and communication media (TV, internet, social media, newspapers, etc.). Proactive approach: Make you action plan for the mid and long term. What can do the company to avoid this problem to happen again? Explore the IWAY created by IKEA just after this crisis: https://www.ikea.com/ms/ar_QA/about_ikea/our_responsibility/iway/index.html Using the IWAY can we avoid this problem to happen again. Please mention SRM (Supplier Relationship Management) strategy you think Ikea should have Beyond Resilience: Antifragility: How to manage the situation to not only solve the problem of child labor, but also to get stronger after this crisis. Analyse the action taken by Ikea which is a great example of antifragility: They created a foundation to fight against child labor in India: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NHF8HLG0as&t=87s Dedicate only a few minutes to this point: Ikea faced another crisis with its famous Meatballs. How to apply resilience in this case based in the technical note?: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/26/world/europe/ikea-recalls-its-meatballs-horse-meat-is-detected.html?_r=0 https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/feb/25/horsemeat-found-ikea-meatballs https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/horsemeat-found-in-ikea-meatballs-in-europe-1.1315385 Add your take-aways and key lessons to learn from this business case and from these 2 crisis Ikea suffered in the past.
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