GAP ANALYSIS: First Step to Meeting the New Standards
In a variety of ways, B Lab’s new standards don’t resemble B Lab’s old standards. We recommend that the first step a company takes is to determine what requirements your company is already meeting and identify which you are not. Below are 2 tools to help you conduct this exercise:
B Lab Self-Assessment
The Self-Assessment referenced above that SMEs following Route 2 and Large companies certifying under the New Standards must complete can be found by logging onto to the new B Impact platform.
It includes:
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It will list the requirements for your company, based on your track for Year 0 (Certification on the New Standards is designed in a phased approach across 5 years). You have the option to indicate the status on each sub-requirement as well as assign a person responsible and a due date to summarise your company performance in this area.
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The data from the Requirements section is consolidated to an overview dashboard to see what requirements you are meeting and where you need to improve at a glance. Here you can see the number of requirements by status and filter according Impact Topic, Status, Assigned Person and Due Date.
For instructions on how to opt into the Self-Assessment, read this Knowledge Base article.
IMPORTANT: Please confirm your company track BEFORE you open the self-assessment. When the company’s attributes (or track) is updated AFTER a self-assessment is created, it does NOT update the self-assessment. To generate a self-assessment on the updated company attributes, you must make a new 'dummy' account with the correct information.