Materiality Analysis

The Assessment Process

Identify topics

External standards and perspectives:

  1. Regulations
  2. Sustainability ratings
  3. Customer concerns
  4. Peer concerns
  5. Media interviews
  6. Engagement with external organizations
  7. Other external standards: OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises

*Regulations and sustainability ratings are prioritized for materiality assessment

Consolidated into 24 sustainability topics

Assess impacts

Refer to stakeholder perspectives and adjust the impact index of sustainability topics:

  • Impact on "ASUS"
  • Impact on "the environment, economy, and people"

Calculation sources

Consolidated and calculated by the sustainability team

Adjust the impact index based on stakeholder perspectives

Confirm materiality

  • The sustainability team consolidates issue impact levels and impact index calculation results

A total of 8 highly material topics

Regular review

  • Establish management approaches and targets for highly material topics
  • Review management and target progress every quarter








 

Review the analysis topics and process once a year

Stakeholders Engagement

ASUS established its quantitative index based on five features under AA1000 SES, “Dependency, Responsibility, Influence, Diverse Perspective, and Tension.” Related parties with major influences on ASUS are identified from multiple stakeholders, including seven stakeholder categories of employees, customers, supply chain and business partners, investors, governments and NGOs, academic institution and society (i.e., community and media).

Through diverse channels, we carry out exchanges and engagements regularly and from time to time to understand stakeholders’ expectations:

Employee

Customers

Supply Chain and Business Partner

Investors

Governments and NGOs

Academic

Society

Importance to ASUS

ASUS considers employees as the most important stakeholders. ASUS cultivates employees' professional skills and provides sound occupational environments for employees based on its business philosophy and becomes an employer favored by employees.

Engagement Method

  • CEO On-Live
  • Information portal website , website/system announcement, meetings

Engagement Frequency

  • Quarterly
  • From Time to Time

Importance to ASUS

ASUS aims to become the world’s most admired and innovative leading technology enterprise in the new digital era, ASUS observes the customer-oriented principles, sparing no effort in providing unparalleled digital life experiences for customers.

Engagement Method

  • Information technology exhibition, Business Submit
  • Product launch, Website and email, Customer satisfaction

Engagement Frequency

  • Annually
  • From Time to Time

Importance to ASUS

Business partners and ASUS has built a value chain of mutual benefits; by improving the cooperation relationships with a balanced ESG, we jointly create new business models and enhance our sustainable competitiveness.

Engagement Method

  • Supplier conference
  • Business review
  • Distributor Conference
  • Audits on suppliers, on-site consultation and audits, Various information sessions, Website

Engagement Frequency

  • Annually
  • Quarterly
  • Annually
  • From Time to Time

Importance to ASUS

ASUS focuses on its golden triangle strategy of "Design Thinking," "net recommendation value," and "market position" to create stable profits and return on equity and exert its achievements in sustainable governance.

Engagement Method

  • Shareholders' meeting, annual report, sustainability report
  • Investors' conference, financial statement
  • Markets Observation post system(MOPS)

Engagement Frequency

  • Annually
  • Quarterly
  • From Time to Time

Importance to ASUS

ASUS complies with laws and regulations, follows governmental policies, and responds to NGOs‘ high-standard expectations to exert exemplary and guiding characteristics as a leading brand.

Engagement Method

  • Information sessions, forums, seminars, and other meetings

Engagement Frequency

  • From Time to Time

Importance to ASUS

Through industrial-academic cooperation, we cultivate and explore professional talents for the future. Meanwhile, we have built communication channels to introduce new ideas and conduct cooperation to develop innovative technologies.

Engagement Method

  • Official correspondence, Information sessions, forums, Seminars, Research interviews, Collaboration in academic publications, Course tutors

Engagement Frequency

  • From Time to Time

Importance to ASUS

ASUS contributes to the society with core business to solve environmental and social problems, and generate positive influences.

Engagement Method

  • Press release, dedicated unit for media and PR, social media

Engagement Frequency

  • From Time to Time
 

Materiality Metric

Materiality Metric

Impact of Material Issues

For material issues, ASUS has established its management policies and formulated action plans and set targets and indexes based on the digitalized measurement strategies to periodically track the achievements. For other issues that are not material, we disclose existing management procedures and measures for stakeholders to understand the overall sustainability achievements of ASUS.

Table of Impact of Material Issues