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The next major redefinition of business value is already underway
Companies are being valued, judged, and exposed based on drivers their current systems were never built to measure — governance, human capital, brand trust, supply chain resilience, innovation, sustainability, and operational risk. This is the field I have spent more than 20 years helping define, working with business leaders, investors, global standard setters, and leading consulting firms to solve one of the most important gaps in modern management: how to connect these non
Elisa Turner
6 days ago


Finance and sustainability have never spoken the same language. Until now.
For years, the same problem has quietly destroyed value across boardrooms, investment theses, and sustainability reports alike. Businesses were measuring impact. Investors were demanding it. But nobody had a system that could identify what was actually driving — or eroding — enterprise value, operationalize it across the business, quantify it with financial rigour, and produce output that holds up under CFO and investment committee scrutiny. That gap has cost companies access
Elisa Turner
May 29


How to Measure and Manage Your Organization’s Real Value
We are honored to be featured in Impact Entrepreneur's "How to Measure and Manage Your Organization’s Real Value" by Dr. Sara Murdock, published in December of 2025. Please click on the link below to read Sara's comprehensive peice on Impakt IQ. How to Measure and Manage Your Organization’s Real Value
communicationsdev
Feb 25


The Unicorns Fixing the World Are Already Here
We are honored to be featured in Robert Rubinstein's "THE UNICORNS FIXING THE WORLD ARE ALREADY HERE" piece published in February of 2026. Please click on the link below to read about the next generation of billion-dollar companies who seek to restore markets. THE UNICORNS FIXING THE WORLD ARE ALREADY HERE
communicationsdev
Feb 25


Economics 3.0: Siloed Sustainability Management Is Now a Liability
Silos don’t just slow you down — they create risks you can’t see until they hit cash flow. That used to be an operational inconvenience.In 2026, it’s a material reputational, financial and compliance problem. Here’s why: The drivers of business resilience, growth, and value have fundamentally changed alongside risk and stakeholder expectations - but management systems haven’t. Today, depending on the sector, 70–90% of enterprise value is driven by intangible and sustainabil
Elisa Turner
Feb 10


AI Broke the Sustainability Tool Stack — Reporting Was Never the Model
AI exposed the biggest weakness in legacy sustainability tools: They were built for reporting. Not for management. And that’s backwards. For years, “ESG platforms” have mostly been: data collection layers, disclosure workflows, dashboards that summarize the past, narrative outputs that live outside core business decisioning. And that was tolerated—because it was the best we could do at scale. AI changed that. Because AI doesn’t just make reporting faster. It makes an entirely
Elisa Turner
Feb 5


Sustainability Isn’t “ESG.” It’s Unpriced Financial Exposure. You’re Running an Economics 3.0 Business on Economics 1.0 Systems
The evolution to the intangible (including sustainable) economy. We’ve evolved through three economic eras, but most companies are still managing and reporting as if it’s the first. Here’s the business case in plain terms: Economics 1.0 — The Industrial Era Tangible assets = enterprise value. Value was centered on physical production, infrastructure, and labor efficiency. What mattered was visible and measurable: machinery, inventory, capital.Management systems were linear
Elisa Turner
Feb 3


Stop Calling It ESG & Sustainability - It’s Financial Risk - And Must Be Managed That Way
The sustainability/ESG conversation circulating is outdated—and much of it is noise. It reminds me of the early internet era, when everyone argued about “websites” and “e-commerce” while missing the real point: it wasn’t a trend. It was a new operating system for business. We’re doing the same thing now. We keep debating sustainability and ESG as if they were standalone topics, even though the market has already moved on. Here’s what we actually know in 2026: Up to 70–90% of
Elisa Turner
Feb 2


Transformational Accounting Why Now: Intangible Risk is Now Financial Risk
For years, sustainability and intangibles have sat outside the core financial conversation. They lived in: Reports Dashboards Side decks Important—but disconnected. That separation is no longer tenable. Today, depending on the sector, 70–90% of enterprise value is driven by intangible and sustainability-related factors : governance quality, workforce stability, supply-chain resilience, regulatory exposure, environmental and social dependencies, and trust. And here’s the shif
Elisa Turner
Jan 26
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