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Purpose-Inside Lab: Purpose Impact and Performance Measurement Solution

Description

A well-defined purpose allows organizations to align all company activities and drive strategy, organizational development, innovation, resilience and engagement. With a missing or misaligned purpose companies face conflicting priorities, inefficiencies, talent drain, the erosion of stakeholder trust, accusations of greenwashing, and eventually existential crises. Most companies today are in a transition phase, struggling to link different goal types (for example financial and non-financial targets) and working on an implicit purpose. At the same time clearly defined KPIs allow organizations to understand strategy feasibility, execution and performance, identify gaps and define priorities. Businesses are facing the challenge of integrating traditional business measures relating, for example, to productivity, finances, and sales, with broader strategic effectiveness objectives including innovation, resilience and sustainability to define a true long-term purpose and achieve corporate longevity.

Purpose-Inside Lab helps Swiss organizations to holistically manage a purpose-led strategy and to implement KPIs to measure its progress and success. It offers self-service and guided solutions, ensuring tailored, scalable, and results-driven purpose alignment.

Backed by Swiss-based and multinational partners committed to purposeful leadership, Purpose-Inside Lab provides an actionable, scalable, and digital framework for organizations ready to embed purpose at the core of their strategy. Purpose-Inside Lab is the first Swiss and one of the few international market solutions to specifically address the lack of structured purpose implementation and measurement.

Key data

Projectlead

Deputy Projectlead

Project team

Dr. Carlo Pugnetti (Hochschule Luzern), Raymond Riedweg (Deloitte AG)

Project partners

Hochschule Luzern; Deloitte AG; Clariant International AG; Bank Cler AG; Johnson & Johnson AG

Project status

ongoing, started 09/2025

Institute/Centre

International Management Institute (IMI)

Funding partner

Innosuisse Innovationsprojekt

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