Social value doesn’t need to be complicated. But it has to be meaningful.
Commitments are too often made without understanding what a specific area needs, while measurement remains inconsistent across the board. The result? The all-important difference projects seek to make is simply not translating to the real world.
While making ambitious commitments is commonplace, making sure that they are rooted in real local needs – and proving they are actually delivered on the ground – remains a major hurdle for many organisations.
ImpactOS is the digital infrastructure for the next era of purpose-driven growth; here to be the operating system for social value moving forwards – helping you link up disjointed practices and rooting everything in real-life outcomes.
Keeping up with the social value evolution
Designed to connect data across every stage of the social value lifecycle, ImpactOS has been designed specifically to bridge the gap between local needs and social value delivery. We are built on a core mission to make sure delivery on the ground is exactly what those communities need.
ImpactOS builds on the strengths and proven track records of two established products – Loop and Impact Reporting. By combining the operational capabilities into a connected engine, our expanded infrastructure equips your bidding, procurement, project delivery, and sustainability teams with the data intelligence they need to make informed and confident decisions at every turn.
Our core capabilities:
- Full lifecycle tracking: Unifying bid promises, supply chain commitments, delivery and final reporting into a single, connected workflow – one that links back to commitments and strategies tailored to community needs.
- Rooted in local needs: Providing you with 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 you and your organisation to take control of your social value – and put more time into delivery, than into the admin around it.
PPN 026
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. ImpactOS also launches in the same week Andy Burnham addressed the Labour Party conference for the first time as Prime Minister – a speech in which he reaffirmed the need for “good growth in every postcode” around the country.
While it focuses on jobs and skills, PPN 026 doesn’t cap wider social value ambitions – it positions jobs and skills as a non-negotiable core. ImpactOS is developed to support creating and measuring strategies with PPN 026 in mind – but crucially not forgetting the alignment of wider social value commitments to specific place-based need.
Amman Boughan, our group CEO, said: “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 that was delivered.
“It’s all ultimately about delivering better outcomes – and ImpactOS is powering that future by connected fragmented processes and data to provide a layer of enhanced intelligence to social value. Using this, what organisations can do is enhanced – moving beyond reporting alone to managing social value effectively from planning through to evaluation to create more targeted and meaningful outcomes around operations.”
Loop’s existing Rail Social Value Tool is coming on the journey, with existing customers being migrated to ImpactOS. As with the previous offering – developed with the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) – rail users will have tailored functionality to the way in which the sector operates, along with all of the enhanced capabilities and local needs analysis functionality.
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