Businesses need to quantify the 'S' in ESG

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Social value is an increasingly critical component in business success - companies must tap data to elevate their impact, argues AECOM's Robert Spencer

How a business best demonstrates the social value it delivers is a question that is being debated everywhere from the meeting rooms of SMEs through to large corporates and government departments. And the...

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