About the MultiCapital Scorecard™
The MultiCapital Scorecard (MCS) is a free and open-source management tool (a public good) that organizations can use to measure, manage and report their performance in a fully integrated (Triple Bottom Line) way. In principle, the MCS is based on the idea that performance is best understood in terms of what an organization’s impacts on vital capitals are relative to organization-specific and context-based sustainability norms. Managing performance, therefore, boils down to managing impacts on vital capitals, a basic tenet of multicapitalism.
The main theory of performance behind the MCS, then, is that in order to perform well, an organization must not put either the sufficiency of vital capitals or the well-being of those who depend on them (stakeholders) at risk. In the case of internal economic/financial capitals, for example, the relevant norms or standards might consist of sector-specific net income targets that at least cover the cost of capital (lower limits); for human, social/relationship or constructed capitals, they might also take the form of not-less-than levels of capital production or maintenance (again, lower limits); and for natural capitals, they will typically consist of not-more-than levels of consumption (upper limits). And because performance also depends on both local and global circumstances that will almost always vary by organization, the MCS is context-based — no two organizations are alike and performance accounting in the new economy should be oriented accordingly.
Indeed, the MCS is the world’s first and only context-based integrated measurement, management and reporting system that makes it possible to assess performance across all aspects of the Triple Bottom Line in terms of impacts on vital capitals. It is the only system extant, that is, that can help answer the questions all organizations should be asking themselves: How much is enough to be sustainable, and are we?
