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Overview

The Resource Wheel, which is an interactive selection of relevant resources and tools, facilitates the assessment and evaluation of a company's progress in incorporating sustainability goals and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into their business strategy. This tool provides resources to evaluate performance across systems, governance, strategy, value chains, culture, change agents, and storytelling. It enables organizations to benchmark against industry standards, set and track sustainability goals, and conduct self-evaluations of their sustainability maturity. Additionally, the Embedding Project provides guidance on sustainability leadership, reporting, and sustainable supply chains.

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Dimensions

Resource type: The Resource Wheel is a framework that offers practices for assessment, leadership and reporting, and guidance on supply chain sustainability, which can be categorized as practical instruments for organizations.

• Tags: framework, guide

Objective: The primary goal of the tool is to help organizations embed sustainability in their structure and align their strategies with sustainable goals.

• Tags: assess, align

Target audience: The tool is designed for organizations of various sizes and sectors that are seeking to embed sustainability into their operations.

• Tags: corporations, SMEs, nonprofits, practitioners

Sustainability focus: The tool and accompanying resources address multiple aspects of sustainability, including governance, operations, and supply chain management. This covers the three pillars.

• Tags: environmental-sustainability, social-sustainability, economic-sustainability, governance, SDGs

Innovation type: It support business model innovation by providing organizations with the means to integrate sustainability into their core strategies.

• Tags: business-model-innovation

Entrepreneurship stage: While the tool is not designed for entrepreneurs, when used in entrepreneurial context, it may be applicable across various stages of entrepreneurship.

• Tags: development, implementation, growth, maturity

Scope of relevance: Given the global applicability of sustainability and SDGs, the tool is relevant on a global scale, although they can be tailored to regional or national contexts.

• Tags: global, regional, national

Methodological approach: The tool is based on a structured approach to assessing and benchmarking sustainability performance. However, the practices that it prescribes align with both qualitative and quantitative methods.

• Tags: qualitative-research, quantitative-research

Skill development: The tool aims to enhance skills in sustainability leadership, strategic planning, and operations management by providing the practices that are multidimensional.

• Tags: leadership-and-management, strategic-planning, operations-management

Source and credibility: The tool is likely developed from reputable industry sources and academic research. The researchers are affiliated with reputable academic institutions.

• Tags: reputable-industry-sources, academic-institutions

Prerequisites and requirements: The tool is designed for organizations with some level of familiarity with sustainability concepts, likely at an intermediate level.

• Tags: intermediate-level

Collaboration level: Depending on the practice, there can be individual or collective focus. but similar to other tools, utilizing the tool in a collective setting would allow tapping into the experiences and skills necessary to perform these practices.

• Tags: team, cross-team-collaboration

More information and an interactive canvas can be found at Embedding Project.

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Resources