How are operations performance judged at a societal level?

Operations should be judged in terms of how they satisfy the various objectives of their stakeholders.

Operations should be judged based on how they impact the people in society.

Operations should be judged based on the $5$ generic performance objectives of quality, speed, dependability, flexibility, and cost.

Operations should be judged based on aggregated measures such a cost, revenue, the use of capital, risk, and operations ability to build capabilities.