Resources / ESG
Helping leaders weigh value beyond the financials
Global resources company
A global resources company recognised that some of its most important investment choices couldn't be made on financials alone. PQ co-designed a practical, repeatable way to weigh environmental impact, community outcomes and long-term reputation alongside cost and return.
The challenge
Making the intangible visible
Traditional processes reduced complex choices to a single financial view. But leaders needed transparent trade-offs between quantifiable and non-quantifiable factors: choices that affected both immediate value and long-term social licence to operate.
The task was a decision framework that could capture this complexity and align diverse stakeholders around what really matters.
What we did
Co-designing a repeatable way to balance value
We worked with corporate and project teams to build a fit-for-purpose framework for weighing multiple forms of value.
Nine decision attributes: a consistent set spanning financial, environmental and community dimensions.
Local translation: worked with project leaders to turn attributes into context-specific measures.
Tested on real trade-offs: facilitated workshops to set value bounds and piloted the approach on a major investment choice.
The outcome
Better-balanced decisions, embedded
The result was a repeatable, transparent process that helped leaders make better-balanced decisions and built shared understanding across functions that often work in silos.
The pilot delivered a sound recommendation and showed how the same approach could scale globally, embedding a stronger culture of long-term value creation.