ESG Data Readiness Assessment
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Is your ESG data ready for regulatory and voluntary reporting disclosures such as CSRD and SBTI?
Since 2011, more than 1,000 ESG reporting disclosures have emerged globally—including CSRD, SBTI, ISSB, CBAM, TNFD, and BRSR, just to name a handful. For companies affected by these requirements, the challenge of meeting them may lie largely in gathering and analyzing large datasets from across business units and value chains.
At your organization, how long does it take for your teams to collect, process, and report ESG performance for typical disclosures?
If your data is difficult to locate, is manually collected and processed, and/or moves through multiple steps before it's available for reporting, you're probably dealing with extended timelines. The best way to reduce these timelines is by automating or streamlining one or more of the aforementioned steps.
How verifiable and assurance-ready is your organization's ESG data?
Voluntary disclosures are one thing, but if you have to defend your data or submit it to a regulatory review, how confident will you be? If this gives you pause, there are some immediate actions you can take.
Reporting process and capability
Maturity stage: data action
How to drive progress
- Implement fully automated end-to-end ESG data management processes enabled by seamless integrations across technology tools.
- Automate reporting processes to generate periodic and recurring ESG reports to reduce cycle times for required disclosures.
- Get more details on the three stages of ESG data maturity in The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business below.
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Maturity stage: data insights
How to drive progress
- Harmonize ESG data management processes with other company processes.
- Draft standard operating procedures (SOPs) for all ESG data and workflows to maintain consistent data capture.
- Built-in digital controls across the process to validate and approve data at critical steps.
- Get more details on the three stages of ESG data maturity in The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business below.
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Maturity stage: data gathering
How to drive progress
- Create a business process model for all ESG data and workflows across your organization.
- Stay on top of ESG regulatory trends, and monitor disclosure needs and timelines.
- Prepare to inventory data sources, and document ESG data collection systems of record.
- Get more details on the three stages of ESG data maturity in The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business below.
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At your organization, what ESG (environmental, social, and governance) datasets do you anticipate becoming most important over the next 3 years?
At your organization, how would you rate the maturity of your ESG datasets in terms of data quality and confidence?
What share of your ESG data is digitized across its end-to-end life cycle?
If accessing your ESG data is a challenge, it likely means that some or most of this data is still gathered manually. Understanding where these manual barriers exist will help you develop a plan to streamline your data flow from source to report.
Do your existing technology solutions support your ESG data goals?
Organizations that are meeting their ESG data goals typically use technology that helps them manage ESG data, respond to reporting needs, and make data-informed decisions.
How is ESG data governed across its life cycle at your organization?
For example, are you managing your ESG data from the time it's acquired through to when it's reported, or do have data controls only on certain processes? Governance throughout the life cycle has been shown to increase data quality and reduce effort in the medium to long term.
How confident are you that the assurability of your ESG data is sufficient to satisfy investor and shareholder needs?
What kind of investments are you looking at making to modernize your ESG data and technology infrastructure?
When modernizing your ESG data management infrastructure, you can save time and money by using solutions that work with your existing technology.
Technology and data
Maturity stage: data action
How to drive progress
- Deploy a modular, scalable technology stack that meets the current and emerging needs of managing high-volume, high-value ESG and business data at the enterprise level.
- Earmark budgets for continuing technology and data infrastructure improvements, modernizations, and innovations on an ongoing basis.
- Get more details on the three stages of ESG data maturity in The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation below.
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Maturity stage: data insights
How to drive progress
- Design systems with integration across tools such as accounting software, ERPs, and plant historians.
- Create digital controls and processes to govern ESG data across its life cycle, and communicate governance policies across your org.
- Prepare to get third-party assurance for more complex data sets, such as Scope 3 emissions.
- Get more details on the three stages of ESG data maturity in The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation below.
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Maturity stage: data gathering
How to drive progress
- Work with departments to inventory ESG and business data sources, identify data silos, and document existing security and governance processes.
- Work toward digitizing business processes and equipment to capture data lineage trails that improve auditability and assurance of the datasets, disclosures, and ESG claims.
- Get more details on the three stages of ESG data maturity in The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation below.
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At your organization, how well-defined and distributed are ESG data accountabilities?
In your view, how mature is your ESG data culture when compared to traditional data functions like finance?
ESG data readiness is more than a technology challenge—it requires buy-in across your organization. Promoting overall data literacy and instilling a sense of urgency around taking care of ESG data can go a long way toward increasing your data quality and overall data readiness.
How well are your organization's departments trained to use ESG data analytics for improving ESG performance?
Can your departments readily respond with an answer when asked about your electricity use or carbon footprint for a particular product? Organizations that are managing their ESG data effectively can typically answer quickly and with a high level of confidence.
People and culture
Maturity stage: data action
How to drive progress
- Democratize ESG data culture by deploying open-source database and self-service analytics to encourage employee engagement.
- Foster innovation by encouraging employee competitions and hackathons to source improvement ideas from ESG performance.
- Link executive and senior leadership bonuses to quantifiable ESG performance.
- Get more details on the three stages of ESG data maturity in The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation below.
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Maturity stage: data insights
How to drive progress
- Review ESG materiality matrices and stakeholder mapping to inform the assignment of data-driven ESG performance metrics for all departments and link these metrics to enterprise-wise ESG performance.
- Drive an ESG data culture by embedding ESG scorecards across all levels of strategic and operational financial dashboards, and review the data in regular business reviews.
- Get more details on the three stages of ESG data maturity in The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation below.
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Maturity stage: data gathering
How to drive progress
- Support ESG education for all employees through existing mechanisms such as employee resource groups and all-hands meetings.
- Distribute ESG data accountability across all departments that contribute to ESG data points.
- Embed ESG data contribution responsibility across all roles, individual performance scorecards, and departmental performance scorecards.
- Get more details on the three stages of ESG data maturity in The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation below.
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How easy is it to locate the ESG data you need at your organization?
Who owns your ESG data and where does it come from? Is it easy to access it in a format you can readily use, or do you need to go through multiple people and multiple steps before you can use it?
Is your ESG data integrated into your core business systems in such a way that it helps you make informed decisions?
At your organization, how well does your ESG data inform your overall business strategy?
Companies with strong sustainability performance achieve better business results according to Harvard Business School Online. Ensuring that ESG data readiness is part of your strategy makes good business sense.
How easy is it to perform ESG scenario modeling for things like net-zero pathways, decarbonization, and stakeholder concerns?
Modernizing your data infrastructure for ESG allows you to take advantage of emerging technologies that enable scenario modeling and predictive analytics.
Strategy and value
Organizations that adapt their long-term strategies to integrate ESG considerations into their business move from a “license to operate” toward a “license to grow.”
Maturity stage: data action
How to drive progress
- Revisit ESG priorities and stakeholder concerns regularly, develop new data connections and dashboards to track initiatives, communicate progress, and return value to the business.
- Supplement existing internal data with external ESG datasets to assess business risks and opportunities.
- Use machine learning to connect quantitative insights between disparate datasets.
- Get more details on the three stages of ESG data maturity in The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation below.
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Maturity stage: data insights
How to drive progress
- Inform business strategy and expansion plans more broadly using ESG data.
- Examine priorities and ensure that C-Suite leaders have the resources and agency to collaborate and execute new improvements and innovations, aligned to the company’s purpose.
- Get more details on the three stages of ESG data maturity in The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation below.
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Maturity stage: data gathering
How to drive progress
- Develop processes to start and update a company materiality matrix.
- Designate the C-suite leaders who will identify and inventory related datasets around ESG materiality, and begin to pull together the material factors that matter most to your organization.
- Establish priorities for using ESG data in collaboration with sustainability leadership teams.
- Get more details on the three stages of ESG data maturity in The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation below.
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What industry is your organization in?
At your organization, how do you use external ESG data when making investment decisions?
At your organization, how do you assess ESG risks in your portfolio?
Consider risks related to financed emissions, lending, investments, insured assets, and the like.
At your organization, how do you collect ESG performance datasets from your clients and/or portfolio companies?
At your organization, how effectively are you able to quantify physical and transitional climate risks across your portfolio of clients?
At your organization, how well trained are your staff in effectively engaging on ESG topics with clients from diverse industries?
Is your ESG data used to compare your organization against your peers in a consumer index that potentially influences customers' buying habits?
At your organization, how do you use ESG data when making investment decisions?
At your organization, if carbon taxes were to apply in the future, do you have sufficient carbon footprint data to model the impacts?
At your organization, how much product data is available to evaluate your contributions toward a circular economy?
To comply with emerging ESG regulations, what financial costs do you envision taking on in the next 5 years?
At your organization, how do you collect ESG performance datasets from your suppliers?
To comply with emerging ESG regulations, what financial costs do you envision taking on in the next 5 years?
At your organization, how do you manage consolidating ESG data in post-merger integrations?
At your organization, how well are ESG considerations integrated into your business continuity plans (BCPs)?
At your organization, if carbon taxes were to apply in the future, do you have sufficient carbon footprint data to model the impacts?
At your organization, how quantifiable is ESG risk in your enterprise risk registers?
At your organization, how mature is the management of Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions data?
At your organization, how mature is the management of Scope 3 emissions data?
At your organization, how do you measure performance on emerging topics like water and biodiversity?
At your organization, how effectively are you able to quantify physical and transitional climate risks facing your business?
At your organization, if carbon pricing were to apply in the future, do you have sufficient carbon footprint data to model the impacts?
At your organization, how effectively does your data surface social and governance risks like diversity and equity, tax avoidance, ethics and integrity, bribery and corruption, and price gouging?
At your organization, how do you collect ESG performance datasets from your suppliers?
At your organization, given how expansive supply chain logistics are, how do you manage Scope 3 emissions data across the value chain?
At your organization, given how water-intensive drug production is, how do you measure performance on emerging topics like water and biodiversity?
At your organization, how do you use external ESG data when making merger and acquisition (M&A) decisions?
Energy
Maturity stage: data action
Based on your responses, your organization is in the data action stage of ESG data maturity within the energy industry.
How to drive progress
- Mitigate your business continuity risk. Ensure that moving to sustainable business practices and renewable energy sources doesn’t put your organization at risk for disruptions.
- Reduce your technical debt. Ensure that your technology assets can handle the processing and storage of the emissions data that you collect, analyze, and report on.
- Get more details on the three stages of ESG data maturity in The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation below.
Dive deeper into your ESG data readiness
Explore The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation to understand how your company's stage of data readiness affects your planning, reporting, compliance, and capital allocation decisions.
How Microsoft can help fast-track your sustainability efforts
Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability brings together capabilities from Microsoft and our global partner ecosystem to help organizations accelerate their ESG data readiness from gathering to insights, action, and growth.
Energy
Maturity stage: data insights
Based on your responses, your organization is in the data insights stage of ESG data maturity within the energy industry.
How to drive progress
- Collect more granular data on your company’s Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, paying extra attention to Scope 3 emissions, which often account for the greatest share of an organization’s carbon footprint.
- Expand the granularity of your data on the physical and transition risks of moving your organization toward net-zero emissions.
- Get more details on the three stages of ESG data maturity in The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation below.
Dive deeper into your ESG data readiness
Explore The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation to understand how your company's stage of data readiness affects your planning, reporting, compliance, and capital allocation decisions.
How Microsoft can help fast-track your sustainability efforts
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Energy
Maturity stage: data gathering
Based on your responses, your organization is in the data gathering stage of ESG data maturity within the energy industry.
How to drive progress
- Learn how carbon taxes and cap-and-trade systems work, how much they cost, and how they might affect your business efficiency, revenue, and sustainability.
- Dig into the specifics of your carbon footprint to gain a clearer picture of your value chain emissions, including energy use, extraction, production, equipment, and transportation.
- Get more details on the three stages of ESG data maturity in The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation below.
Dive deeper into your ESG data readiness
Explore The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation to understand how your company's stage of data readiness affects your planning, reporting, compliance, and capital allocation decisions.
How Microsoft can help fast-track your sustainability efforts
Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability brings together capabilities from Microsoft and our global partner ecosystem to help organizations accelerate their ESG data readiness from gathering to insights, action, and growth.
Financial services
Maturity stage: Data action
How to drive progress
- Develop Data action ESG data systems designed to accurately identify and separate Scope 1 (direct) and Scope 3 (indirect) emissions across various client portfolios.
- Proactively work on reducing technical debt by investing in sophisticated, integrated data aggregator and processing systems.
- Get more details on the three stages of ESG data maturity in The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation below.
Dive deeper into your ESG data readiness
Explore The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation to understand how your company's stage of data readiness affects your planning, reporting, compliance, and capital allocation decisions.
How Microsoft can help fast-track your sustainability efforts
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Financial services
Maturity stage: Data insights
How to drive progress
- Implement comprehensive training for your team on ESG topics relevant to client industries.
- Build and optimize a big data system for complex ESG analysis tailored to your clients' needs.
- Get more details on the three stages of ESG data maturity in The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation below.
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Explore The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation to understand how your company's stage of data readiness affects your planning, reporting, compliance, and capital allocation decisions.
How Microsoft can help fast-track your sustainability efforts
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Financial services
Maturity stage: data gathering
How to drive progress
- Create a plan to integrate comprehensive and quantifiable ESG data into due diligence and risk analysis of all areas of your portfolio.
- Start developing a comprehensive ESG data framework. Establish standardized processes for consistently collecting and updating this data, integrating both internal and external sources.
- Get more details on the three stages of ESG data maturity in The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation below.
Dive deeper into your ESG data readiness
Explore The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation to understand how your company's stage of data readiness affects your planning, reporting, compliance, and capital allocation decisions.
How Microsoft can help fast-track your sustainability efforts
Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability brings together capabilities from Microsoft and our global partner ecosystem to help organizations accelerate their ESG data readiness from gathering to insights, action, and growth.
Healthcare
Maturity stage: data action
How to drive progress
- Understand the impacts of regulatory, investor, and community expectations on your license to operate—and grow as it relates to social and governance issues.
- Proactively invest in integrated ESG data aggregator and processing systems that can handle several high-volume, high-velocity data feeds from across the organization in real time.
- Get more details on the three stages of ESG data maturity in The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation below.
Dive deeper into your ESG data readiness
Explore The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation to understand how your company's stage of data readiness affects your planning, reporting, compliance, and capital allocation decisions.
How Microsoft can help fast-track your sustainability efforts
Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability brings together capabilities from Microsoft and our global partner ecosystem to help empower organizations accelerate their sustainability progress from data gathering to insights, action, and growth.
Healthcare
Maturity stage: data insights
How to drive progress
- Assess your ability to respond to both current and upcoming reporting needs. Consider adopting technology to reduce complexity and help automate data connections and calculations to ensure accurate recording and reporting of ESG data.
- Stay up to date on emerging sustainability topics in the healthcare and life sciences field.
- Get more details on the three stages of ESG data maturity in The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation below.
Dive deeper into your ESG data readiness
Explore The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation to understand how your company's stage of data readiness affects your planning, reporting, compliance, and capital allocation decisions.
How Microsoft can help fast-track your sustainability efforts
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Healthcare
Maturity stage: data gathering
How to drive progress
- Prepare for public interest.
- Given increasing pressure from investors, donors, patients, and employees—as well as intensifying regulations—expect increasing stakeholder interest in your organization's ESG and organizational sustainability credentials.
- Get more details on the three stages of ESG data maturity in The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation below.
Dive deeper into your ESG data readiness
Explore The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation to understand how your company's stage of data readiness affects your planning, reporting, compliance, and capital allocation decisions.
How Microsoft can help fast-track your sustainability efforts
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Manufacturing
Maturity stage: data action
How to drive progress
- Evolve your data systems for business continuity.
- Shift your focus from cost reduction to scenario and decarbonization planning to build the business case for investment in growing top and bottom lines to support sustainability initiatives.
- Get more details on the three stages of ESG data maturity in The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation below.
Dive deeper into your ESG data readiness
Explore The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation to understand how your company's stage of data readiness affects your planning, reporting, compliance, and capital allocation decisions.
How Microsoft can help fast-track your sustainability efforts
Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability brings together capabilities from Microsoft and our global partner ecosystem to help organizations accelerate their ESG readiness from data gathering to insights, action, and growth.
Manufacturing
Maturity stage: data insights
How to drive progress
- Assess your ability to respond to both current and upcoming ESG reporting needs.
- Make your product carbon footprint data granular. Record, report, and reduce your environmental impact through increasingly automated data connections that deliver actionable insights.
- Get more details on the three stages of ESG data maturity in The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation below.
Dive deeper into your ESG data readiness
Explore The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation to understand how your company's stage of data readiness affects your planning, reporting, compliance, and capital allocation decisions.
How Microsoft can help fast-track your sustainability efforts
Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability brings together capabilities from Microsoft and our global partner ecosystem to help organizations accelerate their ESG readiness from data gathering to insights, action, and growth.
Manufacturing
Maturity stage: data gathering
How to drive progress
- Understand the impacts of regulatory, investor, and community expectations on your license to operate—and grow—as it relates to social and governance issues.
- Prepare for public interest. Encourage dialogue, foster transparency, and build trust through clear communication about your ESG efforts and their impact on your company, community, and environment.
- Get more details on the three stages of ESG data maturity in The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation below.
Dive deeper into your ESG data readiness
Explore The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation to understand how your company's stage of data readiness affects your planning, reporting, compliance, and capital allocation decisions.
How Microsoft can help fast-track your sustainability efforts
Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability brings together capabilities from Microsoft and our global partner ecosystem to help organizations accelerate their ESG readiness from data gathering to insights, action, and growth.
Retail and consumer goods
Maturity stage: data action
How to drive progress
- Collect data across the product life cycle. This includes determining what happens to your products once customers have finished using them.
- Incorporate ESG data into your BOM. Include specific fields in your BOM template to account for the ESG factors of each product component, including ethical sourcing, carbon footprint, and social impact.
- Get more details on the three stages of ESG data maturity in The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation below.
Dive deeper into your ESG data readiness
Explore The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation to understand how your company's stage of data readiness affects your planning, reporting, compliance, and capital allocation decisions.
How Microsoft can help fast-track your sustainability efforts
Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability brings together capabilities from Microsoft and our global partner ecosystem to help organizations accelerate their ESG data readiness from data gathering to insights, action, and growth.
Retail and consumer goods
Maturity stage: data insights
How to drive progress
- Explore the impact of carbon pricing. Learn how mechanisms like carbon taxes and cap-and-trade systems work.
- Make your carbon data more granular. Dig into the specifics of your carbon footprint to gain a clearer picture of your emissions.
- Ask suppliers for their ESG data. Collect data as far into your supply chain as possible.
- Get more details on the three stages of ESG data maturity in The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation below.
Dive deeper into your ESG data readiness
Explore The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation to understand how your company's stage of data readiness affects your planning, reporting, compliance, and capital allocation decisions.
How Microsoft can help fast-track your sustainability efforts
Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability brings together capabilities from Microsoft and our global partner ecosystem to help organizations accelerate their ESG data readiness from data gathering to insights, action, and growth.
Retail and consumer goods
Maturity stage: data gathering
How to drive progress
- Understand regulatory impacts and begin planning. Familiarize yourself with how industry and government regulations could impact your future supply chain, production, marketing, sales, and growth.
- Create a plan to begin including comprehensive, quantifiable ESG proof points in your company’s documentation during any due diligence processes.
- Get more details on the three stages of ESG data maturity in The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation below.
Dive deeper into your ESG data readiness
Explore The Leader's Guide to Sustainable Business Transformation to understand how your company's stage of data readiness affects your planning, reporting, compliance, and capital allocation decisions.
How Microsoft can help fast-track your sustainability efforts
Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability brings together capabilities from Microsoft and our global partner ecosystem to help organizations accelerate their ESG data readiness from data gathering to insights, action, and growth.
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