Abstract: A method for computing a universal sustainability index comprising the steps of creating a network, inviting participants to join the network, gathering participant data, imputing contributed data by the participants and transforming the contributed data via a computer to obtain a universal sustainability index or alphanumeric indicator. Participant data is gathered utilizing surveys, tests, questionnaires. Contributed data is imputed from participants and comprises attributes, sub-attributes, statements, sub-statements, subjects, raw values, range bottoms, range tops, percent weights, polarity, third party data, and the like. The contributed data is then transformed to obtain a universal sustainability index or alphanumeric indicator, wherein the universal sustainability score or collection of scores comprises an indicator, and wherein the indicator is a numerical value of a selected subject, or comprises an index wherein the index is a numerical value of a selected agenda or sub-agenda.

Abstract: A method for generating business intelligence comprising the steps of creating a database, contributing data into the database via a computer, assigning numeric values to the data via the computer and calculating scores from the data. The data is selected from agenda, statements, subject types and attributes. The agendum is an objective. The statements support the agendum. The subject types comprise a category of a person, place or object. The attributes describe the subject types and may comprise attribute value descriptions and attribute value inputs. All the data is inputted into a software program, and the software program is utilized to calculate a holistic agendum score or a normalized agendum score. The holistic agendum score is a numerical indicator of the agendum based on holistic calculations and the normalized agendum score is a numerical indicator of the agendum based on zero-based cross normalization calculations.