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What is Impact Management Review
Impact Management Review is a knowledge platform that clarifies how to turn social impact into business advantage. Through company cases, a 100-company database, a maturity assessment, and framework explainers, we deliver practical knowledge for connecting impact to brand, organization, products, customers, capital, and management decisions.
The challenge for Japanese companies is not a lack of interest in social impact, but an inability to apply the impact they measure to management. Starting from this hypothesis, we provide articles, a database, an assessment, and frameworks.
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Impact Management Cases
In-depth analysis of the initiatives and results of leading companies and organizations, in Japan and abroad.
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Global Trends & Research
Explaining global impact-management trends and research reports.
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Editorial Perspectives
Key questions on impact management drawn from cases, assessments, and frameworks.
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Practical Know-how
Methods, tools, and frameworks for advancing impact management.
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100 Companies DB
A database of companies and organizations practicing impact management, in Japan and abroad. Compare and search by industry, theme, and maturity level.
View the database →Impact Management Maturity Assessment
Visualize where your company stands on impact management from Level 1 to 5, across five dimensions: strategy, measurement, organization, disclosure, and application.
- Assessed across 5 axes: management decisions, product development, organization, brand, and capital allocation
- A report with peer benchmarking
- Concrete improvement points for applying impact
Impact Management Frameworks
We explain the key concepts for visualizing social impact and applying it to management decisions, business development, and organization building.
Editorial Perspectives
What should companies confront now in order to turn impact into business advantage? The Impact Management Review editorial team organizes the key questions emerging from company cases, the maturity assessment, and framework analysis.
Why can’t Japanese companies turn impact into business advantage?
Organizing five structural barriers revealed by maturity-assessment data.
Read the essay →How can impact measurement be used in management decisions?
Beyond measuring for measurement’s sake—designing it into decision-making.
Read the essay →Does social impact strengthen the employer brand?
Connecting purpose and recruiting competitiveness—and when it actually works.
Coming soonWhat is “Power” in impact management?
Rethinking the dynamics that drive systems change and the position companies should take.
Coming soonFrequently Asked Questions
Q.What is Impact Management Review?
Impact Management Review is a knowledge platform that clarifies how to turn social impact into business advantage. Through company cases, a 100-company impact-management database, a maturity assessment, and framework explainers, we deliver practical knowledge for connecting impact to brand, organization, products, customers, capital, and management decisions.
Q.What is impact management?
Impact management is an approach that goes beyond measuring and visualizing social impact—using it in management decisions, product development, organization building, branding, and capital allocation. The challenge for Japanese companies is not a lack of interest in social impact, but an inability to apply the impact they measure to management.
Q.What is the impact-management maturity assessment?
A diagnostic tool that visualizes where your company stands on impact management from Level 1 to 5, across five dimensions: strategy, measurement, organization, disclosure, and application. It takes about 5 minutes across 25 questions and is free.
Q.What can I compare in the company database?
You can compare and search leading impact-management companies in Japan and abroad across dimensions such as industry, impact theme, KPIs, measurement methods, and maturity level.
Q.Is Impact Management Review a company ranking?
It is not a ranking. It is a knowledge database that analyzes and records how each company turns impact into business advantage.
Q.Who is this media for?
We assume readers such as sustainability/ESG, corporate-planning, and new-business staff at large companies, impact-startup founders, and leaders or job candidates interested in solving social issues.
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A curated selection of company cases, assessment data, and framework explainers.
