Materiality Analysis | Philosophy | ASUS ESG website, ASUS ESG goal

The Assesment Process

Identification

Stakeholders

Understand the expectations and concerns of stakeholders through regular and irregular exchanges and interactions.

Sustainability Issues

Sustainability standards and reporting framework, peer concerns, responsible investment ratings, environmental label specications, risk trends, SDGs, etc.

Extracted 24 topics to investigate the level of impact.

Impact Evaluation

Evaluate the impact of sustainability topics on ASUS

Senior Manager Questionnaire

Evaluate the impact of topics on external environment, economy and people

Stakeholder Questionnaire

Impact index

Calculated by Sustainability Team

349 Stakeholder Questionnaires, 11 Senior Manager Questionnaires

Validation of Materiality

The sustainable team compiles the impact degree of the issue and impact index

Validation of 10 highly material topics

Regular Reviews

Establish management policies and objectives for highly material topics.

Review the of goals progress on a Quarterly basis

Stakeholders Engagement

ASUS identified stakeholders with major influences on ASUS, including seven stakeholder categories of employees, customers, supply chain, and business partners, investors, governments and NGOs, academic units 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, and, at the same time, the information sources are used for evaluations of sustainability topics and impacts:

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
Product launch, website and email, customer satisfaction survey

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
Audits on suppliers, on-site consultation and audits, various information sessions, website

Engagement Frequency

Annually
Quarterly
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

All

Environment

Social

Governance and Economy

Supply chain management

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.