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Enhancing Business Sustainability Analysis with SmartESG Focus

In a move aimed at enhancing the way businesses approach sustainability reporting, Shellpa & Company, a Tokyo-based firm led by CEO Atsushi Sugimoto, has announced the launch of a new analytical feature within its SmartESG cloud platform. This feature, dubbed SmartESG Focus, is designed to provide companies with a clearer understanding of important sustainability issues across different assessment agencies.

Overview of SmartESG Focus

The Focus feature comprises two components: Focus Single and Focus Cross. These functionalities allow businesses to standardize previously subjective analysis procedures and optimize their limited resources toward the most critical sustainability challenges.

1. Focus Single: Standardizing Agency-Specific Analysis

Focus Single enables companies to integrate the questionnaires and evaluation reports provided by various assessment agencies into the SmartESG platform. Automated five-tier importance ratings for various survey items are generated based on scores and target areas. Company representatives can review these ratings, extract issue themes, and set improvement actions, thereby standardizing and streamlining their responses to each agency's demands.

Benefits of Focus Single

This feature liberates companies from their reliance on traditional tools like Excel for data analysis. With automated importance ratings, businesses can reduce the labor involved in preparing information for analysis, leading to a consistent level of accuracy across departments. Additionally, this capability facilitates easy tracking of year-over-year performance differences, allowing companies to identify trends accurately and implement strategic initiatives for score improvement effectively.

2. Focus Cross: Identifying and Prioritizing Common Issues

Focus Cross aggregates the analysis results from Focus Single to identify common sustainability issues across multiple assessment agencies. By systematically organizing themes and their importance levels, businesses can pinpoint the areas needing focused attention and prioritize their action plans. This feature also enables the organization of improvement initiatives thematically for easy cross-departmental sharing and management.

Benefits of Focus Cross

With Focus Cross, organizations can thoroughly understand the sustainability issues that are consistently highlighted by various assessment bodies. They can prioritize their limited resources effectively, directing efforts to the most impactful areas. Furthermore, by linking improvement actions to specific departments and timelines, companies can enhance their overall corporate sustainability initiatives and improve their sustainability disclosures more transparently.

Development Background

The increasing demand for comprehensive sustainability disclosures necessitates that companies respond effectively to a multitude of assessment bodies, each requiring different formats and details. This has raised the burden of organizing and analyzing disclosure content, occasionally hampering quality due to the individual handling of responses. The subjective nature of agency-specific analysis and the difficulty in identifying common priority issues hinder optimal improvement efforts.

In response, SmartESG has upgraded its previous Matrix feature to introduce Focus, thus strengthening the analytic components of its platform following the data collection and centralization processes.

Shellpa envisions a world where profit and sustainability converge, striving to elevate corporate sustainability management and enhance enterprise value through its data platform.

What is SmartESG?

SmartESG serves as a comprehensive data platform that centralizes fragmented sustainability and ESG data within organizations, facilitating strategic sustainability management. Its four main features ensure efficient disclosure processes while enabling advanced analysis. With Database and Workflow, companies can visualize and manage internal data that often leads to siloed information. Meanwhile, Focus and Benchmark leverage AI for cutting-edge analytics. SmartESG not only accelerates companies' ability to enhance information disclosure and stakeholder engagement but also boosts the development and execution of sustainable management strategies. Since its launch in November 2022, it has been adopted by over 70 organizations, representing approximately 15% of companies with a market capitalization exceeding 500 billion yen. The cumulative market capitalization of these organizations has surpassed 200 trillion yen as of August 2025.

FAQs

For inquiries regarding product implementation, please visit SmartESG's contact page.

Company Overview

• - Company Name: Shellpa & Company
• - CEO: Atsushi Sugimoto
• - Location: 3-6-32 Nishi Gotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan
• - Founded: September 2019
• - Capital: 100 million yen
• - Business Scope: Development and provision of the sustainability information disclosure support platform SmartESG, management of ESG-focused media—ESG Journal Japan, and consultation services through ESG Advisory.

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