CREATE THE FOUNDATION FOR LONG-TERM COMPETITIVENESS
Our services range from our in-depth maturity assessment and roadmap co-creation to specific services aimed at supporting you in achieving a specific goal, improve a capability, or implement a tool. All services depart from our tried-and-tested maturity framework.
Strategy & targets
Enhance long-term success and future-proof your business through sustainability maturity.
Business models
Create new business opportunities by adopting circular economy and services business models.
Innovation & portfolio
Go beyond pilot projects and scale-up sustainability initiatives.
Design for sustainability tools
Develop and implement the right tools for your sustainability integration needs.
Compliance & governance
Ensure regulatory compliance, manage data, and navigate reporting obligations.
Learning & engagement
Develop sustainability competences and engage internal teams.
OUR CORE COMPETENCIES
We have consolidated and systematized state-of-the-art best practices for sustainability integration into business, product development, R&D, and related processes. Here are some examples:
ECODESIGN AND ABSOLUTE SUSTAINABILITY
Bring your product portfolio within planetary boundaries and science-based targets
NEW BUSINESS MODELS
Rethink your business models by exploring cutting-edge insights in the product-service spectrum
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
Bring economic, social and environmental issues to R&D and the conception of your products
TRAINING & KNOWLEDGE SHARING
Develop sustainability competences and engage with internal stakeholders
CIRCULAR ECONOMY TRANSITION
Get ready for the transition from linear to closed-loop thinking by deploying circular economy principles
DECISION-MAKING
Evaluate concepts and navigate trade-offs in your product development and R&D processes
LIFE CYCLE THINKING
Get the big picture with systemic solutions that carefully looks into all product's life cycle stages
ECO- AND SOCIAL INNOVATION
Put sustainability and innovation to collectively generate business benefits.
MATURE YOUR CAPABILITIES AND COMPETITIVENESS
Enhance long-term business success through our maturity approach
Using a science-based maturity approach, we help companies to effectively integrate environmental and social issues into their strategies, processes and practices.
Companies have limited resources and need to have a sustainable approach to sustainability. Sustainability efforts should be prioritized and capabilities need to be built-up gradually over time to create the foundation for long-term business success.
Based on over 25 years of research from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) of state-of-the-art best frameworks and tools for sustainability in business, we know which ones are the most effective to apply when to a company’s specific context.
For more information about our specific services to integrate sustainability into your core business, see below:
MATURITY DIAGNOSIS
– engaging stakeholders and enabling your company to improve its sustainability and innovation capabilities
Get a comprehensive view of your company’s ability to innovate and achieve its sustainability objectives with our sustainability maturity diagnosis. We provide a deep and thorough assessment of all the sustainability management practices that are key for you to succeed. By determining your current maturity profile, your strengths and improvement opportunities will become very clear. This will allow you and your team to identify the most critical areas for action as well as benchmark your sustainability efforts against others.
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CHANGE MANAGEMENT
– translating your sustainability vision into actionable change
Companies must change to become more sustainable, but change in a company is an immense challenge. Change in organizations can bring about anxiety and fear and is often met with resistance. We provide your company with a clear purpose and structure the process of transforming itself to become more sustainable. We will support you throughout the entire process of preparing, managing and reinforcing change throughout the entire organization.
DEPLOYMENT OF SUSTAINABILITY TARGETS
– setting the objectives that will guide your business towards sustainability
Well-defined sustainability targetsm, such as goals set with the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi), inspire top management and key stakeholders. They provide clear orientation, concrete guidance and help prioritize actions in companies. We help you focus on the issues that are strategically important to your company and stakeholders based on significant environmental and social impact as well as business opportunities. We help you formulate targets and select indicators based on scientific evidence about environmental thresholds and planetary boundaries. We are also able to assist in disaggregating corporate targets to specific businesses, operations, markets and products.
SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY
– defining and deploying your sustainability strategy to achieve business success
We help companies build a shared vision and strong strategy for sustainability that is aligned with their business objectives. Based on your company’s internal and external drivers, we assist you in defining a common vision for sustainability, identify opportunities, prioritize actions, set targets and develop roadmaps. We will support you throughout the entire process of defining the strategy and deploying it throughout the entire organization. We cover not just what must be done, but also how it will be done using our Maturity Model.
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SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT STRATEGY & PORTFOLIO
– ensuring that all products are sustainable
Most companies have already applied LCA and ecodesign in their product development projects, but few companies have a clear strategy for ensuring that their entire product portfolio is sustainable. We help companies identify the key environmental and social issues that they need to address, and then define the approach to evaluating their sustainability performance to guide the development of new products.
BUSINESS CASE FOR SUSTAINABILITY
– establishing the rationale for sustainability
A compelling business case is often needed to gather support and commitment to advance with sustainability. We assist you in understanding, and when possible quantifying, the net financial and strategic benefits of sustainable business. We will ensure that your business case is linked to your business strategy and objectives. A good business case is based on solid evidence and is well-articulated to be clear and credible to the entire organization. We can also support you better navigate trade-off in sustainability related to your business case.
MASTER SUSTAINABILITY TOOLS AND BUSINESS MODELS
We can support you to do the right things in the right order, creating the necessary foundation for long-term success.
Sustainability holds the potential to grow the business through innovation, tapping into new opportunities:
- new products and services
- new technologies
- new markets
- new business models
We help companies create space for innovation and build up their sustainable innovation capabilities. We ensure that companies have the right competencies, capabilities and resources to go beyond pilot projects and scale-up their business.
For more information about our specific services that grow your business sustainably, see below:
CIRCULAR BUSINESS MODELS
– a systematic approach to the circular economy
Companies are increasingly seeing the business opportunities and environmental benefits of the circular economy. There are many different strategies and business models that lead to a more circular economy, but depending on a company’s context and capabilities, some are better suited than others. We help you develop the most promising circular economy strategies and solutions. We first determine your readiness for circular economy business and then identify the practices that are necessary for succeeding.
ECODESIGN TOOLS
– using the right tool for the job
There is no lack of sustainability approaches, methods and tools in product development and design, but these are often applied without a good understanding of the organization and its processes. If you are already very advanced with sustainability in your company, then you should use tools that cater to your specific needs and challenges. If you are only just starting to consider environmental and social issues when designing and developing products, a simpler, more general design tool can get you far. Thanks to our mapping of over 800 concepts, best practices and tools related to sustainability in companies, we know which ones are the most effective to apply to your specific context.
SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
– integrating social and environmental considerations in product development
Companies are increasingly realizing that the integration of sustainability into business and product development has the potential to substantially improve the value of the product and reduce production costs. We support companies to systematically integrate sustainability into product development and other core business processes, based on state-of-the-art best practices, tools and approaches. By taking a step-by-step approach to improving your organization’s capability in product development, you will be able to consistently design and develop products with improved sustainability performance.
BENCHMARKING SUSTAINABILITY
– identifying best practices and areas for improvement
Is your company a leader in sustainability or is it lagging behind? We assess your companies’ sustainability management practices, and compare its performance with the best practices in industry. This will enable your company to identify its strengths and areas for improvement. We assist companies in developing plans on how to make improvements or adapt specific best practices to enhance their sustainability performance. This is an effective and efficient way to succeeding with sustainability.
INNOVATION FOR THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY
– how to become a serial winner
Innovation is where the Circular Economy holds the greatest promise, but it is also the hardest to achieve. We inspire and enable companies to become serial winners at eco-, social-, and circular innovation. Using our Maturity Model, we provide a systematic way to measure and improve product development and innovation capabilities in your organization. Our knowledge of state-of-the-art best practices for circular innovation will allow you to enhance your ability to design, develop and deliver innovative products and services with significantly improved environmental, social, and financial performance.
DEVELOPING SERVICE-ORIENTED SOLUTIONS
– providing better value to customers
Today manufacturers are integrating more services into their products – rather than the product itself, the actual value to customers is more based on the access, use or performance of the product through services – often better addressing the customers’ needs. We help you develop and improve your abilities for service-oriented solutions. We will consider design changes to the product to make it fit for services; examine customer needs and activities to identify a better value proposition; and, assess your company’s and its value network’s competencies and management practices to be able to be more service-oriented.
MANAGE REGULATORY OBLIGATIONS AND ENGAGE INTERNALLY
laying the foundation to manage the business sustainably
Corporate social responsibility and sustainability are now essential for all leading companies. Companies must act ethically, legally and transparently in all their business activities to avoid reputational and operational risks.
We assist companies to be more effective and efficient in managing the fundamental aspects of doing business sustainably such as ensuring regulatory compliance, engaging stakeholders, collecting environmental and social performance data, and managing reporting obligations.
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COMPLIANCE AND REGULATORY MANAGEMENT
– mitigating risks and identify opportunities from legislation
Many companies struggle to keep up with the increasing amount of environmental and social legislation in place around the world. This represents a severe risk to business as non-compliance can lead to fines, reputational damage, shutting down operations, removing products from a market or, even worse, an incident with disastrous environmental and human consequences. We enable companies to efficiently manage the compliance of their products and operations to local, national and transnational regulation. We systematically improve your organization’s capabilities for ensuring compliance by applying state-of-the-art best practices, tools and approaches, which will allow you to free up resources that can be used to identify sustainability opportunities and improve business performance.
SUSTAINABLE GOVERNANCE
– creating capabilities and structures to effectively manage sustainability
Successful integration and effective management of sustainability requires a solid governance structure. We support companies by establishing and improving their capabilities to provide sustainability leadership, implement sustainability strategy and ensure oversight and accountability. Effective governance will allow you to better manage and prioritize your sustainability business foundation, excellence and innovation – all key for long-term business success.
SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS AND DASHBOARDS
– providing guidance and tracking progress towards sustainability
A common proverb in business is “what gets measured, gets managed”. While this is also true for sustainability, it is important that a company applies the right performance indicators for their objectives and organization. We help companies select the best sustainability performance indicators and design dashboards relevant for their specific objectives. It is important to consider a mix of both process-oriented and product-oriented indicators in an organization. We assess your indicators based on their relevance for your objectives; their acceptability and credibility among stakeholders; easiness to collect and compute; as well as their robustness of use. Good indicators provide valuable guidance for the entire organization on what needs to be done to advance on environmental and social issues.
TAILORED TRAINING AND COURSES
– empowering your people to drive meaningful change
We offer training sessions and sourses designed to meet your organization’s specific needs and ambitions. Whether you’re looking to build internal capabilities, deepen expertise in sustainability practices, or align teams around strategic goals, our customized programs combine practical insights with real-world relevance. We work closely with you to design engaging, hands-on learning experiences that deliver lasting impact.