QBIS is short for Quantifying Business Impacts on Society. We specialize in socio-economic impact assessments of investments and day-to-day business activities of private companies. Through these impact assessments, we assist our clients in understanding how they can, and often do, contribute to sustainable economic growth through profitable business and investment activities and how they can demonstrate this towards customers, employees, investors and policymakers.

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Companies are major drivers of socio-economic impact. By expanding access to their products and services as well as creating jobs, training workers, building physical infrastructure, procuring raw materials, transferring technology and paying taxes, companies significantly impact the societies in which they operate.

At the same time, socioeconomic impacts are a major predictor of business success. Therefore, companies can use their socio-economic impacts as an important way of maintaining license to operate, improving the business-enabling environment, fueling product and service innovation, strengthening value chains as well as increasing their customers’ willingness to pay for value-adding products and services.

However, benefitting from these impacts requires documentation.

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The purpose of QBIS' impact assessments is to document how companies can and do bring value to both societies and shareholders. Thus, the impact studies document current impacts as well as advise on how to expand business through new ways of increasing shared value for business and society at the same time. However, QBIS' impact assessments may also reveal areas where businesses fail to bring value to societies, and show a necessity for improvement. Therefore, looking into the impact of your business can only serve as beneficial for future operations.