While making ambitious social value commitments within tenders has become commonplace, making sure those promises are rooted in real local needs – and proving they were actually delivered on the ground – remains a major hurdle for many organisations.
Businesses need to keep pace with – and that’s where ImpactOS comes in.
Social value is evolving
Designed to connect data across every stage of the social value lifecycle, ImpactOS is the next generation technology platform. It has been developed specifically to bridge the gap between local needs and social value delivery – built on a core mission to make sure delivery on the ground is exactly what those communities need.
Our group CEO, Amman Boughan, said: “Social value doesn’t need to be complicated, but it must be meaningful. Today, commitments are so often made without understanding what a specific neighbourhood actually needs, while measurement remains inconsistent across sectors. Meanwhile, the all-important difference projects seek to make is simply not translating to the real world.
“We’re at a defining turning point. The challenge is no longer creating commitments. It’s making the right commitments for the right places, and then proving those were delivered.”
ImpactOS is the digital infrastructure for the next era of purpose-driven growth; here to be that operating system for social value, connecting together disjointed practices and rooting everything in real-life outcomes.
What ImpactOS does
The platform builds on the strengths and proven track records of two established software products – our own Loop technology, and the Impact Reporting tool, which we acquired earlier this year.
By combining the operational abilities into a connected engine, the expanded infrastructure equips bidding, procurement, project delivery, and sustainability teams with the data intelligence needed to make informed and confident decisions at every turn.
ImpactOS is engineered around several core capabilities:
- Full lifecycle tracking: Unifying bid promises, supply chain commitments, delivery and final reporting into a single, connected workflow – that links back to commitments and strategies tailored to community needs.
- Rooted in local needs: Providing local needs analysis data, which collates verifiable sources to paint a picture of local community and neighbourhood level priorities to create a clearer bridge between needs, contracts, investment and outcomes.
- Flexible, tailored metrics: Giving the ability to tailor socio-economic details relevant to different stakeholders, as well as the ability to place weight metrics to align with government policy – ensuring that planning, measurement and reporting are laser-focused on what works for any given sector or organisation.
- Speed and simplicity: Making every stage as easy and streamlined as possible, allowing organisations to take control of their social value, and put more time into delivering it than the admin around it.
PPN 026 alignment
The recent publication of PPN 026 has set a clear government priority around good jobs and skills to evolve social value to have more meaningful outcomes for communities.
The launch also comes in the same week the government has laid down a number of commitments, with Andy Burnham reinforcing the need for “good growth in every postcode” around the country in his first Labour Party conference speech as Prime Minister. These commitments include continued devolution of power into regions – to mayors and councils – to allow them to take control of the essentials that make their places work.
While it focuses on good jobs and skills, PPN 026 doesn’t cap ambition. Environmental, wellbeing and other community outcomes matter no less than before. What the PPN does is position jobs and skills as a non-negotiable core. ImpactOS has been developed to support creating and measuring strategies with that in mind – but crucially not forgetting the alignment of wider social value commitments to place-based need.
Ultimately, it’s about delivering better outcomes – and ImpactOS is powering that future by connecting fragmented processes and data to provide a layer of enhanced intelligence.
Using this, what organisations can do is enhanced – moving them beyond reporting alone to managing social value more effectively from planning through to evaluation to create more targeted and meaningful outcomes around operations.
Find out more about ImpactOS and its capabilities on the website.
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