Clear communication is key when conducting a Double Materiality Assessment. That’s why Materiality Master includes a commenting feature – designed to streamline collaboration, clarify decisions, and improve transparency within your team and other stakeholders, e.g. consulting firms or auditors.
1. Why Use Comments?
- Facilitate collaboration between team members and other stakeholders
- Provide reasoning without immediately changing IRO values
- Maintain a traceable conversation trail for audits or internal reviews. See also the audit trail feature.
2. How to Add Comments
- Go to your IRO Analysis tab
- Open any impact, risk, or opportunity (IRO)
- Scroll to the bottom to find the comment section
- Enter your comment (e.g., “Hi John, I suggest changing the probability to ‘unlikely’ due to [reason].”)
- Hit submit to save the comment
Use this to share feedback, suggest edits, mention justifications that should be added as documents, comment about the labels, or raise questions – without directly editing the IRO itself.
3. Editing and Deleting Comments
You can always return to a comment to:
- Edit it via the three dots menu (e.g., revise your suggestion)
- Delete it if it’s no longer relevant
Each comment includes a timestamp and author info, helping your team track who said what and when.
4. Keeping Assessments Collaborative & Transparent
This feature is ideal when multiple users are involved in the assessment process and are invited to collaborate within the double materiality assessment software. It enables asynchronous collaboration – team members and other stakeholders can leave input, clarify uncertainties, or flag concerns without needing to change data directly.
By using comments, you ensure that your materiality analysis is not only data-driven, but also discussion-driven, creating a more thoughtful and accountable decision-making process.
