What we do
Why we do it
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.
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.
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.
Why should you measure your
company’s impacts?

The mutual dependency of business, government and civil society becomes increasingly clear as social and environmental challenges grow, whether locally or globally. Many companies create significant socio-economic impact in the communities where they operate, and they depend on authorities to create a business-enabling environment. There are numerous opportunities for those businesses who can document their positive socio-economic impacts:
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First, measuring socio-economic impact is a powerful way to show policy-makers how business activities contribute to public policy goals and local development.
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Second, it can help companies achieve a better understanding of the impacts of their products and services in local markets, including the needs, aspirations, resources, and incentives of their customers.
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Third, paired with a company’s financial returns, measuring socio-economic impact is likely to raise investor interest.
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Fourth, it can generate a strong connectivity to the socio-economic challenges facing local markets where you operate. Being part of the solution is simply the best argument for staying in business.
What are the potential benefits from measuring your company’s socio-economic impact?
Customer sales
An impact assessment can enhance your customers’ understanding and willingness-to-pay for the value-added of your company’s products and services
Investor relations
An impact assessment can increase investor interest through documentation of both socio-economic and financial return of your company
Government goodwill and access
An impact assessment can create goodwill and attention of government officials and legislators on issues important to your company and your customers
Employee loyalty
An impact assessment can increase the loyalty of your employees documentation of your company’s economic, social and environmental contributions to sustainable growth
OUR EXPERTS

FOUNDING PARTNER
Thomas Westergaard-Kabelmann
Thomas Westergaard-Kabelmann is the founding partner of QBIS. He is an experienced economist specialized in impact and feasibility studies, policy evaluations and audits of business activities, investments and policies plus strategic communication towards customers, investors, legislators and employees. Thomas has more than 15 years of experience as a consultant and has carried out projects in EU27, Africa, the Americas and Asia for large international companies, the EU Commission, governments, professional organisations, UN and World Bank.

SENIOR LEGAL ADVISOR
Louise Lerche-Gredal
Louise Lerche-Gredal is a senior legal adviser in QBIS Consulting specialized in legal framework analysis, optimisation of legislation for sustainable business impacts and alternative business dispute resolution. Louise has extensive experience as attorney-at-law and corporate counsel from large corporations and law firms including Kromann Reumert and Kammeradvokaten (the legal adviser to the Danish Government) advising on contract law, legal risk and liability and commercial conflict resolution and litigation.

SENIOR ECONOMIC ADVISOR
Sune Larsen
Sune Larsen is a senior economic advisor in Qbis Consulting specializing in measuring administrative burdens for SME and large businesses, ease of doing business and assessing socio-economic potentials from removing administrative costs and barriers. Sune has more than 15 years of experience in management consulting within the financial services industry, transportation and the public sector and has worked as Better Regulation and regulatory economic impact advisor to Ministries throughout Northern Europe and the EU Commission.
GET IN TOUCH:
Email: twk@qbis-consulting.com
Tel: +45 53707035
Address: Bredgade 25D
DK 1260-Copenhagen
Denmark