ROSI
Return on Sustainability Investment Methodology
Since 2016, ALO Advisors and NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business have collaborated to develop and evolve the ROSITM methodology. As part of these efforts, a complimentary, self-directed online learning curriculum, “Building a Better Business Case for Investments in Sustainability” is available for those interested in learning more.
Training Modules
Each Course Module focuses on an important step in successfully developing a ROSI business case.
Module 1
Sustainable Business Case Framework: Eight elements of an effective business case for sustainability.
Module 2
The Art of Measurement: With a particular focus on intangibles.
Module 3
Getting Started from Problem to Solution: Learn how to define and articulate the problem and how to frame the shared value solution.
Module 4
Ten Steps to Monetizing the Business Case: Creating an effective business case via decomposition, quantification, and monetization.
Module 5
Quantifying the Value of Investments: Return on sustainability investment.
Module 6
Delivering the Business Case: Elements of the business plan and design presentation.
Module 7
Case Study: Explore a brief business case developed by a beverage company using the ROSI tools.
Note: Initially ROSI efforts were conducted under The Monetization and then The Driving Sustainable Decisions Working Groups.
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Additional Resources
ROSI Framework to Value Deaccelerated Carbonization
Companies face a big challenge when integrating sustainability into business strategy – namely, how to quantify the expected benefits and increase in value of a business from implementing more sustainable practices, including those aimed at reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions.
Making a Better Business Case for Sustainability
Without clearer insight into the financial benefits of corporate sustainability efforts, they may never be scaled up in the face of climate change, pandemic, inequality, and many other perceived or real challenges to a company’s bottom line.
How to Talk to Your CFO About Sustainability
Most companies have committed to improving their sustainability performance. Such sustainability efforts have increasingly become table stakes. And yet many CFOs still see them as a cost rather than a source of value. That makes it hard to unlock the internal financing needed to scale them up.