Social Impact Visualization & Analysis Support
Making the change your business creates in society visible — through logic and data
What changes do your businesses, products and services actually create for customers, employees, local communities and the environment?
At Sustainable Lab, we work through dialogue with the relevant departments to build a logic model that traces the path from business activities to social and environmental change. We then draw on internal data and public statistics to analyze the relationships within that logic and the potential contribution to social issues.
We support you end to end — from KPI design through to application in business strategy, materiality assessment and integrated reporting.
Making social value explainable
Sales volumes and activity counts alone often fail to explain how a business actually contributes to solving social issues.
By organizing business activities, the changes experienced by stakeholders, and the resulting social and environmental effects into a single connected logic — and validating it with data — we strengthen your ability to explain the social value your business creates.
Where sufficient data or evidence is not yet available, we do not force effects or monetary figures. Instead, we clarify what can be made visible today and identify the data that should be collected going forward.
Service
Building Logic Models & Indicators
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We hold discussions with the stakeholders relevant to each evaluation theme — business units, HR, sustainability teams and others — and map the logic that runs from business activities through to social and environmental impact.
Drawing on IRIS+ and other Japanese and international frameworks as well as public statistics, we design indicators and KPIs that reflect the realities of your business.
Support examples
Clarifying evaluation objectives and scope
Interviews with relevant departments
Building the logic model
Designing indicators, KPIs and the data required
Service
Impact Visualization & Analysis Support
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Using internal and statistical data, we analyze the relationships between elements of the logic model and the potential contribution to social issues.
The results are translated into a form that can be applied to KPIs, business strategy, materiality, and integrated reporting. Depending on the data and evidence available, we also support quantitative evaluation and monetary valuation.
Support example
Taking stock of the data you hold and the data you lack
Analyzing relationships and contribution levels within the logic
Quantitative evaluation of social impact
Application to management, business operations and disclosure
How It Works
The following outlines our general process.
We adapt flexibly to the scope of each project and the requirements of each client.
STEP 1
Clarify objectives and scope
We define the businesses, products, services and stakeholders to be evaluated, and the purpose the evaluation will serve.
STEP 2
Logic model and analysis
Through dialogue with the relevant departments, we build the logic model and carry out indicator design and data analysis.
STEP 3
Application to management and disclosure
We organize the analysis into a form ready for use in KPIs, business strategy, materiality and integrated reporting.
Case Studies
A selection of the companies we have supported
CASE01
Visualizing and monetizing environmental impact
OMRON Corporation
Covering GHG emissions, water use and wastewater discharge, we quantified the impact of reduced environmental burden by referencing Japanese and international methodologies and coefficients published by public institutions.
Alongside clarifying the calculation conditions and assumptions, we made visible the logic running from business activities through environmental KPIs to societal benefit, and supported its use in integrated reporting and elsewhere.
CASE. 02
Value visualization and data analysis for a global program
A consumer goods company
For a water and sanitation program operating across multiple countries, we organized activities, KPIs and beneficiary data, and built a logic model.
Definitions were aligned through English-language discussions with overseas team members. Combining public statistics with program data, we analyzed the relationship between facility development, awareness-raising activities and hygiene behavior — and supported the creation of the English-language deliverables.
※We also support global projects
We can conduct discussions in English with overseas subsidiaries and country-level project leads, organize data and KPIs that differ by country and region, and produce analysis materials and deliverables in English.
While reflecting the business realities and social issues of each region, we help build logic models and indicator frameworks that work consistently across the group.
CASE 03
Building a social impact logic model for a healthcare business
A healthcare company
Starting from home healthcare devices and digital services, we mapped the pathway from user behavior change and improved health outcomes through to social value.
Through repeated dialogue with the business units, we combined IRIS+, Japanese indicators, public statistics and the company's own KPIs to build a logic model and indicator framework extending from the individual user to their family, medical institutions and society at large.
Ready to make the social value your business creates explicit — with logic and data?
Visualizing social impact is not only about demonstrating large effects or headline figures.
What matters is clarifying who experiences what change as a result of your businesses, products and services, and how that can contribute to solving social issues.
From building the logic model through data analysis to application in KPIs and disclosure, we tailor our support to your objectives and the state of your data.