Economics 3.0: Managing What Actually Drives Enterprise Value

The Rise of Economics 3.0 and the End of Siloed Management

Why Most Businesses Are Still Managing the Wrong KPIs

For over a century, businesses operated under Economics 1.0 — an industrial-era model built for tangible assets, linear supply chains, and predictable growth. Value was created through physical capital, scale, and efficiency. Accounting systems, ERP tools, and financial statements were designed to measure exactly that.

Then came Economics 2.0.

As globalization, technology, and financialization accelerated, value quietly shifted. Intangibles began to dominate enterprise worth — brand trust, human capital, governance, resilience, innovation, supply-chain reliability, and environmental and social performance. Today, depending on the sector, 70–90% of enterprise value lives outside traditional financial statements.

But here’s the problem:

While the economy evolved, management systems didn’t.

Most organizations are still using Economics 1.0 tools to manage an Economics 2.0 reality. Financials explain what already happened. ESG scores snapshot isolated metrics. Neither reveals the systemic risks and value drivers shaping future performance.

Now we are entering Economics 3.0 — the full-system era.

Economics 3.0 recognizes that businesses operate as living systems, not silos. Sustainability, operations, finance, governance, workforce, and reputation are no longer separate domains — they are interconnected drivers of risk, resilience, and long-term value.

Regulators, investors, and markets are catching up fast. ISSB, CSRD, and global disclosure standards are formalizing what has long been true:

What you don’t measure, you can’t manage — and what you don’t manage, you can’t protect or grow.

This is exactly why we buillt Impakt IQ.

Impakt IQ is built for Economics 3.0. We don’t treat sustainability or intangibles as side reports or compliance exercises – it’s the next generation of business intelligence. We quantify, verify, and operationalize them with the same rigor as financial management — connecting sustainability, operations, and finance into a single, investor-grade intelligence system.

If ERP systems show you the financials, Impakt IQ shows you the risks, dependencies, and value drivers behind the financials.

Economics 3.0 isn’t about abandoning profit.

It’s about understanding the full system that creates it.

The companies that thrive won’t be the ones with the best narratives — they’ll be the ones with the clearest intelligence.

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Elisa Turner, Founder & CEO, Impakt IQ - elisa@impaktiq.com

Building the business intelligence system for Economics 3.0