Abstract

It has become a recurring necessity and exercise for corporations to assess the alignment of their corporate strategy and goals with UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Such an assessment is a highly complex task, full of inconsistencies and subjective opinions of internal and external stakeholders, which eventually influences the formal processes of strategy making and strategic choices. This chapter presents a computer-aided method for corporate sense-making and prioritization of SDGs, beyond the current state of the art SDG assessment tools and methods. Novel technology and data analytics can be used for supporting the assessment process and finding a consensus between different opinions. We present a customized version of Thomas Saaty’s Analytical Hierarchy Process, which is custom tailored for SDG assessment to structure and organize the decision process and find and eliminate inconsistencies of group decision-making. We present and summarize the experiences and lessons learned from eight computer-aided corporate SDG sense-making and prioritization exercises carried out in Estonia and Finland.