Material Assessment

Design your material assessment to uncover the key issues that will successfully shape reporting and strategy.

  • A weak material assessment leads to poor reporting and strategic formulation at the organizational level.

  • Material assessments are critical to long term success for any sustainability professional.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

  • Sustainability leaders need to build a material assessment in order to shape the organizatin’s reporting and strategy.

  • Sustainability leaders need to come prepared with a plan to learn and integrate with the existing stakeholders on an ongoing basis. Material assessments provide ongoing stakeholder feedback.

Impact and Result

  • Learn - Proactively plan to learn rather than drive for immediate results. Use company documentation and initial discussions to determine type and mode of the company in order to shape the appropriate material assessment methods.

    Connect - First priority will be to connect with your Spheres of Influence. In the majority of situations, leaders can benefit greatly by listening to staff and stakeholders before acting. This will allow you to make more informed decisions regarding material assessment formulation.

    Act - Work with your team to structure a comprehensive material assessment.

    Fix - Find and fix any problems with the design of the material assessment as soon as possible.

Material Assessment Research & Tools

1. Start here - read the Executive Brief

Read our concise Executive Brief to find out how the material assessment is a necessity for your organisation and how to right-size it to your needs.

Material Assessment - Executive Brief

2. Populate Your Roadmap

Review, determine, and prioritise initiatives, and initiate a material assessment roadmap to showcase your rationalisation decisions to key stakeholders.

Layout your foundations. Inventory your applications and define their business capabilities based on your current understanding.

Road Map (Material Assessment and Beyond)

3. Analyse Your Spheres of Influence

Review your spheres of influence, and initiate a plan to showcase your actions to key stakeholders.

Spheres of Influence

4. Day 1 to Day 30

Design material assessment framework. Review business strategy and planning.

Material Assessment (1 to 30 Days)

Smart Material Assessment Plan Form

Business Strategy and Planning Template Form

5. Day 31 to Day 60

Use the resources to help you best determine and carry out the material assessment. Refine and build on the actionable long-term plan for the material assessment.

Material Assessment (31 to 60 Days)

STOP, START, CONTINUE - 360 Review Form

6. Day 61 to Day 90

Review the material assessment results and provide recommendations to senior management regarding the key issues revealed by the material assessment and your recommendations Assess the strategic vision and evaluate the roll out of your plan.

Material Assessment (61 to 60 Days)

Key Issues and Recommendations

About Envirolly

Envirolly is a high growth sustainability research and advisory company, proudly serving sustainability professionals.

We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help chief sustainability officers and sustainability leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with sustainability teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organisations.

What is a Framework?

A framework is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your sustainability problems.

Each framework can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.

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Try Our Guided Implementations

Get the help you need in this 8-phase advisory process. You’ll receive 10 touch points with our researchers, all included in your membership.

Guided Implementation #1 - Lay your foundations

Call #1 - Establish goals and foundations for your material assessment.

Guided Implementation #2 - Analyse Your Spheres of Influence

Call #1 - Initiate analyse of your Spheres of Influence and determine stakeholder requirements.

Guided Implementation #3 - Populate Your Roadmap

Call #1 - Initiate your roadmap and determine your ongoing goals and action plan.

Guided Implementation #4 - Day 1 to Day 30

Call #1 - Initiate design of material assessment framework.

Guided Implementation #5 - Day 31 to Day 60

Call #1 -Refine and build long-term plan for material assessment.

Guided Implementation #6 - Day 61 to Day 90

Call #1 - Review material assessment results and provide recommendations.

 Onsite Workshop: Material Assessment

Onsite workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost onsite delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.

Module 1: Lay Your Foundations

  • The Purpose

    Review the overall plan of action for the first 100 days and beyond

  • Key Benefits Achieved

    • Establish the goals of the First 100 Days.

    • Set the scope of responsibilities.

    • Establish business priorities for the First 100 Days.

  • Activities

    1.1 Define goals and metrics.

    1.2 Define categories.

    1.3 Determine steps and roles.

    1.4 Weight value drivers.

  • Outputs

    • Set short and long-term goals and metrics.

    • Set the scope of the first 100 Days.

    • Set the scope of the process.

    • Define business value drivers.

 Module 2: Analyse Your Spheres of Influence

  • The Purpose

    Review your spheres of influence, and initiate a plan to showcase your actions to key stakeholders.

  • Key Benefits Achieved

    • Determine stakeholders.

    • Set scope of your Spheres of Influence.

    • Establish priorities within your different Spheres of Influence.

  • Activities

    1.1 Define stakeholders.

    1.2 Define categories of Spheres of Influence.

    1.3 Determine steps and strategy to engage Spheres of Influence.

  • Outputs

    • Set short and long-term goals.

    • Set the scope of process to engage Spheres of Influence.

    • Define drivers.

 Module 3: STARS Analysis

  • The Purpose

    The organisation is characterised as being in one of the five business scenarios. Use the STARS analysis to determine the business scenario.

  • Key Benefits Achieved

    • Review the five business scenarios.

    • Analyse the business scenarios and the organization.

    • Determine the business scenario that fits the organization.

  • Activities

    1.1 Define the five business scenarios.

    1.2 Analyse the characteristics of each business scenario.

    1.3 Determine the organization’s business scenario.

  • Outputs

    • Set the type of business scenario that fits the organization.

    • Base future plans on the outcome of the STARS analysis.

 Module 4: Prepare for Your New Position

  • The Purpose

    Prepare to hit the ground running by preparing for the new position prior to your start date.

  • Key Benefits Achieved

    • Assess job requirements. .

    • Analyse position expectations.

    • Assessment of abilities.

  • Activities

    1.1 Define the new position’s role within the organization.

    1.2 Analyse the elements of the new position

    1.3 Assessment form used to determine strengths and weaknesses for new position..

  • Outputs

    • Set clear expectations for new position.

    • Review result of self-assessment.

    • Determine best course of action to prepare for the new position prior to the state date.

 Module 5: Populate Your Roadmap

  • The Purpose

    Review, determine, and prioritise initiatives, and initiate a First 100 Days roadmap to showcase your rationalisation decisions to key stakeholders.

  • Key Benefits Achieved

    • Assess action plan.

    • Review overall scope of training.

  • Activities

    1.1 Define the scope of the First 100 Days.

  • Outputs

    • Set clear expectations for new position.

    • Review each step of the First 100 Days.

    • Determine how to carry out each step in the First 100 Day process.

 Module 6: Day 1 to Day 30

  • The Purpose

    Champion corporate goals and strategy. Use the resources in this module to complete an actionable long-term plan.

  • Key Benefits Achieved

    • Determine action plan to align position’s role with corporate goals and strategy.

    • Create actionable long-term plan.

  • Activities

    1.1 Define corporate goals and strategies.

    1.2 Align corporate goals and strategies with position responsibilities and opportunities.

    1.3 Draft actionable long-term plan.

  • Outputs

    • Align position tasks with overall corporate goals and strategy.

    • Actionable long-term plan.

 Module 7: Day 31 to Day 60

  • The Purpose

    Become proficient in daily operational tasks. Analysis of team abilities and synergies.

  • Key Benefits Achieved

    • Review operational tasks within new position responsibilities.

    • Review team abilities and synergies. .

  • Activities

    1.1 Define operational tasks under the new position.

    1.2 Review team abilities and synergies using the Assessment Form.

  • Outputs

    • Set clear picture of team and their abilities.

    • Set plan to harness team synergies.

    • Proficiency in daily tasks.

 Module 8: Day 61 to Day 100

  • The Purpose

    Use the resources to help you best determine and obtain quick wins. Refine and build on the actionable long-term plan.

  • Key Benefits Achieved

    • Determine key quick wins for organizational success.

    • Perform 360 Analysis.

  • Activities

    1.1 Define quick wins for organizational success.

    1.2 Fill out and review STOP, START, CONTINUE - 360 Review Form

  • Outputs

    • Set strategy to obtain quick wins.

    • Determine outcome of 360 Review of role.

 Module 9: Beyond 100 Days

  • The Purpose

    Assess the strategic vision and evaluate the roll out of your plan.

  • Key Benefits Achieved

    • Determine strategies to continue momentum of the First 100 Days

  • Activities

    1.1 Review templates to assist with position tasks.

    1.2 Review and refine long-term actionable plan.

  • Outputs

    • Set strategy to build on momentum of the First 100 Days.

    • Refined long-term actionable plan.

Dive Into More Research

  • First 100 Days

    Sustainable Strategy

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  • Quick Wins

    Development of early successes.

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  • Obtain Buy-In from Stakeholders

    Tools to assist with creating buy-in.

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