PROSPER Compass
SIPI's Prosperity Navigation Tool
An integrated qual-quant framework for systemic thinking and long-term value creation.
Framework
The PROSPER Narrative
The compass is a multidimensional framework advancing the thinking to help Switzerland become more resilient, equitable, healthy or sustainable.
Click any segment of the compass to explore its narrative, outcomes, and systemic links
Tap any segment to explore
Each dimension of the Prosper Compass represents an interconnected force shaping our collective future. Together they form a systemic lens — no single dimension works alone.
Opportunity Access
As human and social capital compound, opportunity expands. Access to knowledge, networks, and meaningful work becomes available to all — not just the few — creating conditions where talent flourishes regardless of origin or circumstance.
Social Cohesion
Strong communities form the connective tissue of a prosperous society. Cohesion is built through trust, shared purpose, and inclusive participation — where diversity becomes a source of collective resilience rather than division.
Equitable Growth
Competition shifts from extraction to long-term value creation. Equitable growth means prosperity is broadly distributed — with closed loops for critical resources, AI-augmented processes, and net-positive product portfolios that serve people and planet.
Planetary Integrity
Operating within planetary boundaries is the precondition for everything else. Planetary integrity means respecting the Earth's carrying capacity — where economic activity regenerates natural systems rather than degrading them.
Resilient Economies
Economic resilience means the capacity to absorb shocks, adapt to change, and recover stronger. Resilient economies diversify, invest in people, and build redundancy into critical systems — they do not optimise for efficiency alone.
Regenerative Stewardship
Stewardship moves beyond compliance to active regeneration. Leaders and organisations take responsibility not just for their own impacts, but for the health of the broader living systems they depend on — accountable to future generations.
Purpose and Wellbeing
At the heart of the Prosper Compass lies a simple conviction: the purpose of any system is to support human flourishing. AI–human teaming, longer and healthier lives, and affordable nutritious food are not aspirations — they are design requirements.
Indicators & Definitions
Integrated Prosperity Measurement
The PROSPER Compass is a multidimensional framework designed to measure prosperity consistently across organisational, sectoral, and territorial levels. It translates systemic wellbeing into a structured indicator architecture that enables organisations, investors, and public institutions to assess and steer their contribution to prosperity beyond financial performance alone.
Rather than replacing existing standards, it acts as an integration layer across frameworks such as GRI, ESRS, VSME, Cercle Indicateurs, and MONET as well as other national indicators. Its role is to create coherence across scales and establish the relational logic currently missing between corporate, regional, and national measurement systems.
The framework also enables the development of a derived PROSPER Index that translates MONET and Cercle Indicateurs into a unified territorial prosperity signal connected to organisational performance.
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Purpose & Wellbeing
The lived experience of wellbeing, meaning, and agency.
Definition
Measures whether people experience healthy, meaningful, and balanced lives. Covers subjective wellbeing, mental health, work-life balance, safety, and access to essential living conditions.
Why it matters
Prosperity is ultimately reflected in people's lived experience. High income alone does not guarantee wellbeing, social connection, or quality of life.
Indicators (selection)
Corporate
- Work-related accidents & LTIR
- Employee satisfaction / eNPS
- Sick leave per FTE
- Mental health support access (EAP coverage)
Regional
- Potential years of life lost
- Traffic noise exposure
- Culture and leisure spending
- Road accident rate
- Mental health hospitalisation rate
National
- Life satisfaction score
- Healthy life expectancy
- Mental-health burden
- Suicide rate
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Regenerative Stewardship
The capacity and commitment to restore and renew natural and social systems over time.
Definition
Measures the intentional transition from extractive to regenerative practices. Covers circularity, ecosystem restoration, long-term stewardship commitments, and investments that improve natural and social capital across generations.
Why it matters
Long-term prosperity depends not only on reducing harm, but on actively regenerating the systems societies rely on. This pillar captures forward-looking stewardship and renewal capacity.
Indicators (selection)
Corporate
- Waste reduction & recycling rate
- Circular material use rate
- Biodiversity restoration initiatives
- Regenerative sourcing commitments
- SBTi alignment status
Regional
- Biodiversity preservation and promotion areas
- Plant species diversity index
- Separately collected municipal waste
- Wastewater treatment rate (via STEP)
- Municipal waste generation per capita
- Agricultural land quality / soil sealing rate
National
- Biodiversity Intactness Index
- Material footprint per person
- Recycling rate
- Carbon sequestration capacity
- Nitrogen balance in agriculture
- Fulfilment of climate policy targets
O
Opportunity Access
Fair access to economic and social opportunity.
Definition
Measures whether individuals can access education, employment, mobility, and participation regardless of background, encompassing inclusion, pay equity, skills development, and enabling rights structures.
Why it matters
When opportunity is unevenly distributed, talent is underutilised and social mobility weakens, reducing both economic potential and social legitimacy.
Indicators (selection)
Corporate
- Gender composition & employee turnover
- Living wage compliance
- Adjusted gender pay gap
- Training hours per employee
- Female representation in management
- Human rights & grievance mechanism
- Board gender diversity
Regional
- Unemployment rate
- Women in cantonal parliament
- Education level
- Low-income taxpayers
National
- Upper secondary certification rate
- Women in National Council
- Women in management
- Gender pay gap
- Digital Inclusion (skills and access)
- Intergenerational earnings mobility
- NEET rate
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Social Cohesion
The strength of trust, participation, and institutional legitimacy.
Definition
Measures the quality of social trust and collective capacity. Covers civic participation, institutional confidence, inclusion, public integrity, and social stability.
Why it matters
Trust and legitimacy are foundational to collective action, institutional resilience, and long-term societal stability.
Indicators (selection)
Corporate
- Anti-corruption violations
- Confirmed discrimination & labour rights incidents
- Stakeholder engagement process maturity
- Lobbying transparency
- Supplier payment compliance
Regional
- Voter participation
- Serious violent offenses
- Mutual aid actions (civic solidarity proxy)
- Social assistance rate
- Naturalisation rate
National
- Corruption Perceptions Index
- Housing cost burden
- Poverty rate
- Trust in federal institutions
- Domestic violence
P
Planetary Integrity
The stability of Earth systems within ecological boundaries.
Definition
Measures the environmental pressures generated by economic activity relative to planetary boundaries, encompassing emissions, pollution, land use, freshwater systems, and biodiversity pressure.
Why it matters
Prosperity depends on maintaining the ecological stability on which societies and economies rely. Exceeding planetary boundaries increases systemic risk across all dimensions of wellbeing.
Indicators (selection)
Corporate
- Scope 1–3 GHG emissions
- Energy consumption
- Renewable energy share
- Pollutant emissions
- Water withdrawal
- Revenue from harmful sectors
Regional
- CO2 emissions
- Energy consumption
- Renewable electricity share
- Air pollution index
- Groundwater nitrates
- Built-up area as % of total territory
National
- GHG emissions
- Air quality
- Swiss ecological footprint
- Protected areas
- Share of renewables
E
Equitable Growth & Innovation
The distribution of economic value and innovation outcomes.
Definition
Measures whether economic gains and innovation benefits are broadly shared. Covers income distribution, productivity, innovation access, labour participation, and responsible value creation.
Why it matters
Growth is only durable when value creation translates into broad-based economic participation and shared prosperity at home and abroad.
Indicators (selection)
Corporate
- R&D investment as % of revenue
- Profit-sharing (non-management)
- CEO-to-median worker pay ratio
- Labour income share
Regional
- Cantonal GDP per capita
- High labor productivity sector share
- Tax burden (cantonal composite)
- Innovation sector employment share
- Patent applications per capita
National
- Top 1% income share
- Income distribution
- Labour productivity
- Global Innovation Index rank
- Governance effectiveness (WGI percentile)
R
Resilient Economies
The ability to absorb shocks and adapt to disruption.
Definition
Measures adaptive and systemic resilience across economic, financial, supply-chain, energy, and institutional systems, encompassing preparedness, diversification, fiscal capacity, and risk management.
Why it matters
Resilience enables economies and institutions to withstand disruption without prolonged losses in stability, prosperity, or social welfare, and even bounce forward.
Indicators (selection)
Corporate
- Sustainability strategy integration
- Climate risk assessment
- Business continuity planning
- Supply chain mapping depth
- Revenue diversification (HHI)
- Liquidity runway
Regional
- Public debt ratio
- Healthcare access
- Agricultural land per capita
- Infrastructure maintenance investment
- Hospital bed capacity
National
- FINMA capital ratio (CET1)
- Energy import dependency
- Economic Complexity Index
- ND-GAIN Country Index
- Strategic reserve compliance
Applications
PROSPER in practice.
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PROSPER Compass for SMEs
Amidst evolving regulation, SIPI has developed a PROSPER Compass grounded in EFRAG VSME and calibrated to Swiss benchmarks. A first pilot with SMEs will focus on usability and decision-usefulness.
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Impact Valuation & System Integration
Leverage systems thinking and impact valuation to support integration across organisational and territorial systems, creating a coherent basis for comparing, interpreting, and aligning prosperity pathways and outcomes across levels.
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PROSPER Innovation Playbook
Develop a practical playbook to help innovators and investors across SIPI Grand Challenges define, assess, and improve their contribution to prosperity by translating systemic effects into actionable insights for net-positive innovation and capital allocation.
Co-develop the PROSPER Compass
We invite researchers, practitioners to contribute to the selection of indicators, the methodology development, and piloting compass.