The Challenge

positive impacts (PI) GmbH is a strategy consulting firm specializing in integrating sustainability/ESG into the strategy and processes of organizations.

After two decades of advising major global companies their founder decided to develop a unique and thorough framework to allow companies to tap into the transformative and highly needed potential of sustainability/ESG.

Positive impacts asked Harding Scott to codify their framework and processes that existed as a combination of excel spreadsheets and management knowledge into an easy to use, fully integrated platform that their analysts and customers could use.

“Very helpful in sharpening our requirements and allowing the platform to evolve and improve”

— Martin G. Viehöver, Founder & CEO

The Solution

Given Harding Scott’s extensive experience in creating enterprise level platforms and positive impacts experience with highly developed algorithms we knew we could work together to bring an efficient technical solution to market.

The solution Harding Scott created enables positive impacts analysts to easily enter, score, review and calculate companies sustainability, E.S.G and benchmark assessments, saving time, increasing auditability and allowing for positive impacts to serve more customers.

A rules engine and scoring algorithm powers the platform. Audit trail and approval modules allows for highly permissioned access to assessments and reports, whilst ensuring the highest degree of accountability and quality in the reports generated.

The platform is used by their corporate team to support their core business. We support, monitor and manage the infrastructure as well as continue to build out new and exciting features.

The Outcome

Harding Scott successfully helped positive impacts to design, architect and engineer their new platform.

With the beta version being launched earlier this year, positive impacts have used the new platform to run detailed assessments and reports for some of the worlds biggest companies.

Keen to expand their offering, positive impacts asked Harding Scott to design, architect and engineer a new area of their offering, a client facing self assessment platform. This allows any company to plot the status quo of sustainability integration in their organizations and provide a sector benchmark. (find it here: self-assessment.positive-impacts.com)

We truly enjoy working with positive impacts and their fantastic team and look forward to our continuing work with them.