Strategic Sustainable Development
We assist with strategic sustainable development
…so you become part of the solution to the sustainability crisis and contribute to creating renewed hope for the future.
We guide you through the transition to sustainability by simplifying the process without compromising on science and ambition. We create a clear path towards absolute sustainability by selecting the right methods for you and through well-tested steps that ensure real progress, value and hope for all involved parties.
…to enable you to create greater value for more stakeholders and be part of the future.
By combining learning from the past with knowledge from the present, we help you gain a deep understanding of the right steps into the future, allowing you to make well-informed decisions - both in the design phase and in the boardroom. In this way, we help you future-proof your organisation while considering future generations and creating systemic value, new business models, and the potential for greater returns.
…and participate in the collaboration with all our competencies and full presence.
As a small, autonomous and agile agency, we give you our complete presence and commitment on the journey we embark on together. In addition to our broad competencies and many years of experience, we supplement our team with specialists and professionals of international calibre who can assist you on the long-term journey towards absolute sustainability.
Our purpose
For a vital and rich world full of life, beauty, resources, health and abundance, we gather stakeholders across sectors and borders, aligning interests towards greater shared ends. We facilitate the co-creation of systemic value through wise, strategic and evidence-based actions, with an aim towards absolute sustainability.
We achieve strategic sustainable development through a five-phase ABCDE model
Ambition
& Goal
Baseline
Assessment
Creating
Solutions
Decisions
& Planning
Engagement
& Leadership
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Setting direction: Establishing ambitious vision and goals coherent with mission and within boundary conditions for a safe operating space for humanity and life on our planet - as defined by Earth system science.
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Understanding current reality: Through various sustainability and risk analysis leading to defining the gap between baseline and aspiration.
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Leveraging creative tension: Through design for sustainability methods and business model innovation.
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Bridging the gap by design: By devising a roadmap through prioritising and planning investments as well as implementation of solutions, innovations, and appropriate technology. Balancing ROI and impact while avoiding path dependency.
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Making it happen for real: Through meaningful engagement of key stakeholders and change management. Monitoring and adjustment of key indicators to govern transition while leading the investment and change projects - taking care of developing the culture and organisation to ensure the necessary knowledge, skills, collaborative efficacy and mindsets are in play.
Strategic Sustainable Development
Our approach to strategic sustainable development involves adopting a business perspective that integrates long-term strategic thinking and futures design. It implies designing organisations, products and business models in accordance with how nature works while considering a broad range of stakeholder interests. We think long-term, deeply and broadly.
At the core of this approach is a respect for science and the integrity and regenerative capacity of communities and ecosystems. This requires evidence-based management to ensure effective and sufficient transformations that enable scaling and real systems impact. We do this in ways that honour the past, cultures and traditions, ensuring continuity while fostering multiple synergistic benefits across time and space - also for the benefit of future generations and non-human beings. In essence, to achieve true progress by creating system value.
