Why impact strategy matters

Organisations are under increasing pressure to demonstrate their impact, from regulators, investors, and society. At the same time, many struggle to move from ambition to transparency to target setting and implementation.

Common challenges include:

• Lack of a clear and shared impact vision 
• Difficulty translating vision & ambitions into concrete targets and actions 
• Limited integration of impact into decision-making 
• Increasing complexity due to CSRD, SFDR and other regulatory requirements 

A strong impact strategy provides direction, focus, and credibility. It enables organisations to prioritise, align stakeholders, and build a foundation for effective impact measurement and management.

Our approach

We help organisations develop impact strategies that are not only conceptually sound, but also practical and implementable.

Our work is grou nded in the Impact-Weighted Accounts Framework (IWAF), developed in cooperation with Harvard Business School, SMU and RSM. This framework enables organisations to quantify and, where relevant, monetise their environmental and social impacts.

By expressing impact in a common unit (€, integrated value), organisations can:

• Compare trade-offs between different strategic choices 
• Better understand risks, opportunities, and value creation 
• Integrate impact into financial and operational decision-making 

We apply a multi-capital, multi-stakeholder perspective, linking environmental, social, and financial performance – together they represent ‘integrated value’. 

At the same time, we increasingly integrate resilience into our work. Where impact focuses on the effects of your organisation on society and the environment, resilience focuses on your organisation’s dependencies on those systems. Bringing these perspectives together enables more robust and future-proof strategies.