Tag: materiality
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The Warning Was There. Who Was Listening?
Reading time: 5 minutes How is listening linked to resilience and sustainability? An employee raises concerns about unsafe working conditions. A supplier reports growing water shortages. ... -
What Happens If Your Most Important Supplier Stops Tomorrow?
6 minute read Imagine arriving at work tomorrow morning and receiving a message from one of your most important suppliers. They cannot deliver. Not today. Not ... -
Can Your Customer Depend on You Tomorrow?
Can Your Customer Depend on You Tomorrow? Large companies are not merely collecting sustainability data. They are building resilient value chains. A supplier may offer the ... -
Your Biggest Risk May Sit Outside Your Business
Your Biggest Risk May Sit Outside Your Business Approximately 4 minute read Imagine an ecommerce company that takes sustainability seriously. Its premises are powered entirely ... -
Knowing What Matters Is Not Enough. Resilience Requires Action.
In Week 35 we argued that resilient businesses build options. In Week 36 we asked how businesses determine which options matter. Enhanced materiality provides part of ... -
Resilience Starts with Knowing What Matters
In our previous article, we argued that the resilient business does not try to predict the future perfectly. It builds options. But that raises an important ... -
Sustainability Information Is Only Valuable When It Improves Decisions
Organisations are producing more sustainability information than ever before. They are collecting data, assessing impacts, responding to reporting requirements, engaging stakeholders and preparing increasingly detailed disclosures. ... -
Adapt or Decline? Why Decision-Useful Materiality Is Becoming a Board’s Competitive Advantage
One of the central lessons from Darwin’s theory of evolution is that long-term survival depends on adaptation. The organisations that succeed tomorrow will not necessarily be ... -
Materiality Is Not a Popularity Contest: Why sustainability should be driven by evidence, value creation and disciplined decision-making
One of the greatest strengths of modern sustainability reporting has been its emphasis on understanding what really matters. Materiality enables organisations to focus resources where they ... -
Why Traditional Double Materiality Matrices Are Failing Decision-Makers — And What to Do Instead
For years, the traditional two-axis double materiality matrix has been presented as one of the defining outputs of sustainability reporting. Colourful charts plotting “impact materiality” against ... -
Understanding materiality can unlock accountability
With changes under way in the sustainability reporting landscape, clarity on what the scope of the various initiatives are, as determined by their approach to ... -
Case study: How E.ON is developing environmentally friendly products and services to become the partner of choice for energy solutions
E.ON, a European German-based Energy service provider is facing up to a changing landscape and embracing new significant challenges by applying greater focus on climate-friendly products ...
