THRIVE SPS v2.2 (3 pages) THRIVE framework, platform and Sustainability Performance Scorecard (SPS) tool

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!
We live in an economy where
we privatize gains, socialize
losses and underprice risk.
Thomas L Friedman
For more information and free registration, visit http://strive2thrive.earth v2.2

2. Multi-
capital
A
Linear to
Circular
EconomyValues-
based
innovation Strong
vs weak
sustain-
ability
Context-
based
metrics
Science-
based
targets
Integral
reporting
Boundary
/Business
Model
Complex
wicked
problems
Finite
resources
Trans-
disciplinary/
Systems
Thinking
Materiality
Multi-capital based
(McElroy & Thomas 2015; IIRC 2018)
Trans-disciplinary / Systems Thinking
(Ludeke-Freund 2016; Williams et al. 2017; Ackoff 1971)
Context-based metrics
(McElroy 2013; Eccles 2018; Haffar & Searcy 2018)
Boundary/Unit of Analysis (Business Model)
(UNEP 2017; Evans et al. 2017; Zott et al. 2011)
Science-based targets (thresholds & allocations)
(Lydenberg et al. 2010; Baue & Thurm 2018)
Linear to Circular Economy (biomimicry)
(Geissdoerfer et al. 2017; Ellen McArthur Foundation 2013)
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; Sironen et al. 2014)
Integral reporting
(Eccles et al. 2018; Elkington 2018; Thurm 2016)
Finite resources (planetary boundaries)
(Rockstrom 2009; Steffen et al. 2015; Raworth 2012)
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)
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3. Assailing the seven C’s:
Creature, Company,
County, City, Country,
Continent, and Climate
Ciambella Charts allows for the quick top-level visual
comparison between the sustainability performance
of enterprises at stratified levels of granularity such
as city or continent-wide. Furthermore, comparisons
may be within industry sector or longitudinally across
years.
Invoking the precautionary principle, taking a strong
sustainability stance, based on the framework for
strategic sustainable development (FSSD), Ciambella
Charts invite non-substitution and thus disallow the
robbing of Charlie to pay Cathy. Whether discovering
an enterprises commitment to gender equality,
renewable energy, becoming carbon neutral or
fighting the climate crisis, Ciambella Charts are
unique as they provide instant comparison at a
glance as to where an enterprise is succeeding or
failing in its mission towards sustainability together
with its identified strategy or business model.
This first-principled approach, incorporates
backcasting targets, placing enterprises on the
trajectory towards sustainability with the
sustainability performance index (SPI) providing a
context-based assessment of an enterprises’ impact.
Ciambella charts represent the utility of resources
together with global thresholds and allocations with
enterprise impacts shown by material topic based on
the GRI standard or UN SDGs.
Specifically, Ciambella Charts show resource
allocation, inner and outer thresholds, impact and a
sustainability performance indicator for each
relevant material topic as well as an overall
sustainability performance score (SPS) for each
enterprise on an ongoing basis. A stratified approach
allows to dissect performance at several scales from
the nano to the macro – for example at the company,
city, country level, or worldwide.
One can chose which material topics are being
evaluated from popular taxonomies such as the
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) or Sustainable
Development Goals (SDG) alongside an enterprise’s
set of business models.
Additionally, weights may be manipulated to
simulate the effects of changes in taxation,
legislation, regulations or the impact of incentives.
Negative weights are also useful to encourage
enterprises to act in a desired way.
Ciambella charts serve as an easy to use, instant
visual aid, displaying normalized sustainability
performance measures in conjunction with
selectable and scalable colour coded material topics
and business model. The THRIVE SPS tool
incorporates levers allowing one to produce and
capture a customized chart to suit their needs for
insertion in reports, presentations and other
publications.
For more information and free registration, visit http://strive2thrive.earth v2.2