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Cover Story
Valuing what matters: How the integration of four capitals can create a resilient economy for the future
This article argues for an update of our global economic system integrating natural, social, human, and produced capital into decision-making. It emphasizes moving beyond voluntary adoption to mandated regulations for a more resilient and sustainable economy.
Topics
Governance
Artificial Intelligence Technology: A Missing Catalyst in Impact Measurement and Management – opinion article
This opinion article illuminates how artificial intelligence technology can play a significant role in employing Impact Measurement and Management (IMM) in different organizations around the world.
Topics
Impact Investing
Shifting Investment Priorities – From High-Growth Unicorns to Sustainable Profit Models
Over the past decade, unicorn startups prioritized rapid growth over profits, driven by venture capital. Now, investor focus is shifting toward sustainable growth, ESG standards, and resilient business models. This paper explores that transition, highlighting emerging models like zebras and camels and the role of supportive regulations.
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Governance
Artificial Intelligence Technology: A Missing Catalyst in Impact Measurement and Management – opinion article
This opinion article illuminates how artificial intelligence technology can play a significant role in employing Impact Measurement and Management (IMM) in different organizations around the world.
Impact Investing
Shifting Investment Priorities – From High-Growth Unicorns to Sustainable Profit Models
Over the past decade, unicorn startups prioritized rapid growth over profits, driven by venture capital. Now, investor focus is shifting toward sustainable growth, ESG standards, and resilient business models. This paper explores that transition, highlighting emerging models like zebras and camels and the role of supportive regulations.
Frontier Insights
Can a Business Consultancy Drive Impact? Real-Time Management – RTM experience
In this interview, Larry Oruro, Project Manager and Sustainability Leader at Real Time Management (RTM), discussed how consultancies drive impact by promoting effective measurement and management practices. He emphasized that RTM helps organizations adopt impactful strategies by focusing on clear communication and cultural adaptation, such as using stakeholders’ language. Larry also highlighted that a consultancy must be rooted in sustainability values to inspire the same commitment in the organizations they advise. Successful impact relies on integrating sustainability into core business practices and continuously improving through impact measurement and certifications. This interview was conducted by Marycielo Valdez Sanchez for the Asian Impact Management Review (AIMR) to explore entrepreneurs and projects worldwide that strive to create a positive impact, share their challenges and achievements, and understand how they manage and measure their impacts.
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Winter 2025
The Winter 2025 issue explores how organizations can move beyond commitments to create measurable and lasting impact. The cover story examines the evolving concept of capital, arguing for a broader understanding of value that recognizes social, environmental, and human dimensions alongside financial returns. The regional report presents new evidence from Hong Kong, identifying critical gaps in impact measurement practices while offering practical pathways for strengthening organizational capacity. An organizational report showcases how artificial intelligence is transforming the monitoring of social investments across Asia through real-time data and collaborative insights. Two case studies demonstrate impact management in practice: one illustrates how Social Return on Investment (SROI) can empower young entrepreneurs and strengthen community-based tourism in Thailand, while the other highlights how low-cost, evidence-based interventions can expand women’s leadership in Sri Lanka’s tea industry. Methodology features examine the organizational transformation needed to integrate impact management into decision-making and introduce the GDEIB framework as a practical approach to embedding diversity, equity, inclusion, and impact into organizational systems. A thought-provoking book review challenges conventional financial accounting by advocating for integrated value creation, while our public policy argues that balancing adaptation and mitigation is essential for building long-term resilience and sustainability. Together, this issue provides practical insights and innovative perspectives for leaders seeking to embed impact into strategy, governance, and decision-making across Asia and beyond.
Organizational Report
Harnessing AI to Monitor Social Investments across Asia
AVPN leverages AI and data analytics to enhance how impact activities are tracked across Asia, equipping social investors with monitoring tools to identify collaboration opportunities and allocate capital with greater effectiveness in diverse contexts.
Methodology & Standards
Integrating Impact Management: “It’s Too Difficult” — A Selective Tolerance for Complexity
Organizations in Asia can shape global practice and demonstrate to others how to effectively implement management standards that integrate impact management. The need for action is clear – and standards from the UNDP and ISO provide important practical guidance on how to make this a reality. Which standard an organization selects will likely depend on familiarity and market pressures to align with one or the other.
What is clear is that failure to integrate impact management is not the result of a lack of tools or capability. Rather, limited implementation to date is primarily explained by the absence of meaningful consequences for decision-makers. Yet, these consequences are rapidly materializing, and those organizations that adapt will be those that continue to create lasting value for stakeholders – including those with a financial stake.
The perceived complexity of making the necessary transformation is one of perspective. If viewed as reaching an end-state, rather than an effectively managed process of development and learning, it will likely appear too complex.
Optimizing contributions to sustainable development is a consequence of applying appropriate governance and technical discipline. Without strategic execution and the necessary systems, processes, and behaviours, the desired organizational reality will not be realized.
Commitments to sustainability and the SDGs are long-standing – we now enter the period of action – and the time for organizations and leaders to demonstrate their integrity and secure long-term value creation is upon us.
Book Review
Book Review: The Accounting Paradox: How Financial Accounting Is Damaging the World (But Can Help Repair It) by Jeremy Nicholls
This review examines The Accounting Paradox, highlighting how financial accounting can both obscure social and environmental costs and become a powerful tool for impact, accountability, and systemic change.
Academy
IMM Academy Coming Soon
Learn more with us about topics related to impact measurement and management (IMM).
Together with Asian Institute for Impact Measurement and Management (AIIMM) we are preparing courses for:
- researchers, students and those who want to learn essential skills in writing journal articles in IMM field using and methodologies that help to understand and measure impact effectively
- professionals seeking to deepen expertise and aquire more specialized knowledge in IMM, enhancing their skills and applying advanced techniques in their field.
