Bcta impact Lab (Business Call to Action)

Mokhinoza Khamidova 3390F
Marina Gaevskaya
Impact Data Platform - BCtA Impact Lab (Business Call to Action)
Identify, measure and manage your company’s impact on the Sustainable Development Goals to support your business decisions
Corporate Sustainability and Social Responsibility
Platform support businesses to visualize how operations, strategies and goals link and contribute to the SDGs. There are descriptions of all 17 Sustainable World Development Goals on the site. The Impact Lab uses the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the basis for measuring your impact.
Platform can help:
Assess Market Opportunities & Risks (Identify and set indicators to assess market gaps, needs, competitive space, regulatory barriers / incentives, partnership opportunities, and more)
Develop Customer Insights (Gather stakeholder insights to align your social mission and objectives with their needs)
Design Effective Products & Services (Assess the efficiency of your operations, products and services, and get closer to your impact goals)
Improve Customer Engagement (Retain customers and build loyalty by understanding their needs, and communicating your results)
Build Reputation & Brand (Build your brand by linking your business to the Sustainable Development Goals)
Enhance & Scale Your Impact (Contribute positively, not only to your shareholders, but also to the environment, the community and the world)
The site also lists Four steps for managing your impact:
1. Planning for Impact
Create your Impact. Value Chain by mapping your business operations against the Sustainable Development Goals and Targets
2. Framing Impact
Identify relevant indicators to measure and monitor your impact. Select from globally accepted metrics such as IRIS+ or add custom ones.
3. Standardizing Impact
Standardize your impact framework using the shared logic set forth by the Impact Management Project.
4. Measuring Impact
Start a monitoring plan by identifying gaps in existing evidence and reviewing different approaches to collect data.