The document introduces the THRIVE platform and Sustainability Performance Scorecard (SPS) tool. It aims to assess corporate sustainability performance based on science-based targets and global thresholds within planetary boundaries. The open-source platform measures enterprise performance across key sustainability issues using context-based metrics. It provides visualizations and dashboards to allow for comparative analysis of trends in performance over time and across sectors and geographies. The tool seeks to facilitate progress towards strong sustainability by evaluating business strategies and models and incentivizing competition among enterprises.

1. Re-integration, not re-invention
THRIVE platform and Sustainability Performance Scorecard (SPS) combines
the approach, knowledge and methods that the best available science shows
us is necessary for a prosperous future. It sets the stage for backcasting from
first principles, achieving targets within global thresholds and allocations.
Multi-capital and values-driven, is it designed for those enterprises who want
to get things done. THRIVE’s usefulness comes from its inherent ability to
show performance in real time across all material topics. Both GRI Standard
and SDGs are supported.
THRIVE SPS assesses global impacts,
within context, and thus facilitating
enterprises to keep a finger on the
pulse of their sustainability
performance based on actual metrics
relative to their sector, their region or
worldwide, and commensurate to past
performance.
Ciambella
Visualizations
Dynamic Ciambella Charts provide an
instant visual way to compare
enterprise performance. Together with interactive dashboard levers and
controls, it provides business analyst, researchers and government groups
the ability to examine trends, and dissect and drill-down on results.
Consumers may vote with their wallets to reward and encourage competition
among enterprises relative to the corporate sustainability performance.
Government and lobby groups may use the predictive features to assess the
implication of tariffs, taxes, incentives and subsidies on various proposed
regulatory measures. Such foresight mitigates risk within the circular
economy and accelerates change for the prosperity of all life forms on Earth.
Public, open platform
Solving the most important problem of our time, within a finite planet, will
require more than just motivation. Innovative product, processes and
business models have shown the greatest opportunity for success. Being able
to scientifically evaluate the corporate sustainability performance of an
enterprise vis-à-vis its business strategy or business model will provide the
necessary insight for progress.
THRIVE assesses the strong sustainability performance of enterprises, using
an open public platform by measuring what matters most as derived from
science-based targets.
Measuring what matters most
Business leaders understand they cannot manage what they do not measure.
However, often overlooked, is whether they are measuring what matters
most. THRIVE SPS tool ensures a comprehensive, integrated and comparative
approach is used, thus addressing wicked transdisciplinary challenges and
providing a pathway to implementing the backcasting approach.
THRIVE sustainability performance scorecard tool:
Empowering society to flourish!
For more information and free registration, visit http://strive2thrive.earth
We live in an
economy where
we privatize
gains, socialize
losses and
underprice risk.
Thomas L
Friedman

2. Multi-
capital
A
Linear to
Circular
EconomyValues-
based
innovation Strong
vs weak
sustain-
ability
Context-
based
metrics
Science-
based
targets
Integrated
reporting
Boundary
/Business
Model
Complex
wicked
problems
Finite
resources
Trans-
disciplinary/
Design
Science
Multi-capital based
(McElroy & Thomas 2015; IIRC 2018)
Trans-disciplinary / Design Science Approach
(Ludeke-Freund 2016; March & Vogus 2010)
Context-based metrics (CBM)
(McElroy 2013; Eccles 2018; Haffar & Searcy 2018)
Boundary/Unit of Analysis (BM)
(UNEP 2017; Evans et al. 2017)
Science-based targets/Thresholds & Alloca-
tions (Lydenberg et al. 2010; Baue & Thurm 2018)
Linear to Circular Economy (CE)
(Geissdoerfer et al. 2017; Ellen McArthur Fdtn 2013)
Materiality
Values-based business model innovation
(Breuer et al. 2017; Schaltegger et al. 2015)
Strong vs weak sustainability/Greenwashing
(Upward & Jones 2016; Najam et al. 2000)
Complex wicked problems
(Breuer & Ludeke-Freund 2017; Foss & Saebi 2018)
Materiality
(UNEP 2015; Eccles 2012; Lai et al. 2017)
Integrated reporting (<IR>)/Tri-impact
(Eccles et al. 2018; Elkington 2018)
Finite resources/Planetary Boundaries
(Rockstrom 2009, Steffen et al. 2015)
The Holistic Regenerative
Innovative Value Enterprise
(THRIVE)
THRIVE open platform assesses the strong
sustainability performance of enterprises in
relation to their business model at the meso scale.
Employing a holistic top-down, systems thinking
perspective, based on the best available science
(Focus Factors), and guided by first principles, it
tabulates and can instantly display at a glance with
Ciambella Charts the corporate sustainability
performance of an enterprise within a sector,
region or worldwide and year-on-year. THRIVE
adopts an open source methodology, based on the
framework for strategic sustainable development
(FSSD), and thus able to address wicked problems
supporting context-based metrics and global
thresholds and allocations, enabling enterprises to
monitor their performance against targets within
planetary boundaries, using backcasting
techniques. THRIVE sustainability performance
tool ensures enterprises are uniformly, fairly and
comparatively assessed, thereby encouraging
competition amongst them to do good to do well
for peaceful partnerships for people, planet, profit
with purpose and prosperity.
For more information visit and register for free at
http://www.strive2thrive.earth.
Morris D Fedeli, the author of THRIVE, is a pracademic
at USQ, Australia, with thirty years’ experience in the
application of new emerging innovative business models
and technologies. His research interest and passion are in
sustainable business innovation strategies for a
prosperous society. He publishes and presents regularly
around the world. Connect with him at Linkedin and on
ResearchGate.
Source: Focus Factors, Assessing the corporate sustainability performance
of organizational business models (Fedeli 2018) .