Holistic Reporting

Intentional Transparency

Green XML

BASDA’s  Green XML is an interesting initiative from the UK-based Business Application Software Developers Association that claims to represent some 200 software vendors. BASDA has been promoting its e-business XML schema for a decade or so to facilitate the exchange of B2B transactions such as purchase orders and invoices between accounting/ERP applications. They now propose to extend their XML schema to include ‘green’ data, which is not a bad idea. Read the rest of this entry »

Holostx: Self Evaluations

Holostx continues to get more functions. I have added a self evaluation (SEF) capability, which is another hallmark of transparent organizations – the commitment to surfacing as much feedback as possible from both internal and external stakeholders. The self evaluation function lets you setup a SEF, then collect, connect and communicate the results. So Holostx now supports sustainability (and other operational) indicator management, supply chain auditing and SEFs. At this rate it’ll be as big as SAP by Christmas (not!).

Holostx: Supply Chain Auditing

I have now added supply chain auditing to Holostx so that you can audit your key suppliers and automatically generate a supply chain audit section as part of your overall online CSR/Sustainability report. Read the rest of this entry »

Key Metric: Generation/Consumption by Employee

Our carbon footprint is mainly driven by the number of people in the company. In 2000, we had 24,000 employees. In 2007, we had 50,000 employees. Now, we are at about 48,000.

Dr Peter Graf, chief sustainability officer at SAP

That’s why consumption/generation by employee is a key metric reported in the Holostx Big 4 Impact report.

Holostx: SPM for SMEs

Things have been quiet on the holistic reporting blog for the last couple of weeks. But there’s a good reason why. I’ve been putting my money where my mouth is, got my head down and developed a Sustainability Performance Management (SPM) application for Small to Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) called Holostx. Read the rest of this entry »