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GSBS Intelligence Framework

Structured, consistent information beyond financial statements is increasingly relevant for understanding organisational performance, continuity, and long-term resilience across industries.

The GSBS Intelligence Framework provides a consistent structure for collecting, interpreting, and comparing business and resilience-relevant indicators in professional sport. It is designed to reflect the specific operating characteristics of the sport industry while enabling comparability across organisations, markets, and seasons.

By applying a uniform framework informed by cross-industry experience and established best practices, GSBS supports transparent benchmarking and the identification of meaningful performance and resilience signals.
The GSBS Intelligence Framework underpins the GSBS Rating and all related benchmarking and insight outputs.

Why structured information matters

Without a clear and consistent understanding of the current state, meaningful comparison and improvement are not possible. The GSBS Intelligence Framework provides a structured basis for establishing this understanding across professional sport.

Consistent collection and analysis of business and resilience-relevant information makes strengths and gaps visible, supports accountability, and enables comparability across organisations and markets. Ongoing tracking over time helps identify patterns, improvement potential, and emerging pressure points that may affect continuity and performance.

By focusing on structured, data-driven insight rather than isolated metrics, GSBS supports a more informed understanding of organisational resilience and long-term viability.

What is covered by the GSBS Intelligence Framework

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Enterprise & Strategic Foundations
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  • Organisational profile and operating structure

  • Business presence, footprint, and reach

  • Financial structure and core performance indicators

  • Key stakeholder groups and commercial relationships

  • Documented strategies, policies, and management approaches

  • Reporting scope, transparency, and data consistency

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Resources & Disruption Exposure
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  • Greenhouse gas footprint and overall emissions profile

  • Energy use and efficiency across operations and facilities

  • Consumption of key natural resources and materials

  • Waste streams and circularity-related practices

  • Mobility-related environmental impacts

  • Local environmental effects linked to operations and venues

  • Environmental management of buildings, facilities, and grounds

  • Environmental risk and responsibility across the value chain

  • Climate-related exposure and strategic response

  • Environmental targets, actions, and progress tracking

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People, Culture & Safeguarding
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  • Workforce structure, scale, and geographic footprint

  • Employment conditions, stability, and turnover dynamics

  • Workforce diversity and demographic composition

  • Compensation structures and wage-related indicators

  • Employee skills, training, and development capacity

  • Health, safety, and well-being across key stakeholder groups

  • Labour standards and human rights exposure within operations and value chains

  • Stakeholder, customer, and supply-chain social conditions

  • Preparedness for long-term workforce and societal developments
     

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Governance & Control Environment
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  • Board structure, composition, independence, and succession planning

  • Board skills, experience, diversity, and effectiveness

  • Clear allocation of authority, oversight, and decision-making responsibilities

  • Ethics, integrity, and anti-corruption frameworks and controls

  • Transparency, disclosure practices, and reporting governance

  • Whistleblowing systems, prevention mechanisms, and accountability processes

  • Stakeholder engagement, oversight, and responsible business conduct

  • Economic contribution, foundations, and charitable activities
     

These four dimensions together form the basis of the GSBS Business Resilience Rating and related intelligence outputs.

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