Services
We serve a wide range of clients, from financial institutions and industrial companies to political institutions, research institutes, and non-profit organisations.
We rarely tread on beaten paths. There is no standard project for us. While methodological expertise is an important foundation, it must always be adapted to the client’s individual situation. Whether it’s a status quo analysis, sustainability strategy, circular economy concept, supply chain optimisation, reporting, investment or financing guidelines, fund concept or feasibility study – we work with our clients to set the desired project goals and define the project steps necessary to achieve them.
Our analysis service portfolio includes, among other things, conducting status quo analyses, benchmarking analyses, market analyses, supply chain analyses, and preparing studies.
Our well-proven status quo analysis identifies the key sustainability challenges of each industry and evaluates our clients’ performance against 22 central sustainability criteria. The result of our analysis is a detailed overview of the company’s current status and key recommendations for gradual improvement.
We regularly conduct both industry-specific and cross-industry benchmark analyses for our clients. Thanks to our customizable analysis concept, tailored to the client’s individual needs, we can evaluate sustainability performance against a variety of relevant criteria compared to their peer group. This way, we support our clients – whether in setting ambitious industry-specific goals, identifying potential growth areas, or deriving proven measures.
Our studies address key topics in sustainability. Whether through data from our partner rating agencies, well-founded and scientific expert interviews, or our own online surveys – comprehensive data analysis is always the basis for high-quality study results that meet the standards of the universities cooperating with us.
Whether for identifying market trends, assessing the impact of regulatory changes, or uncovering structural change needs – thanks to our industry expertise, especially in high-impact sectors, a network of highly qualified experts, and our interdisciplinary team, our market analyses shed light on complex sustainability issues.
We identify both hot spots and risks in our clients’ value chains to initiate a holistic transformation of these value chains through targeted engagement with the most relevant suppliers and/or customers.
As part of strategy development, we support our clients from revising an existing sustainability strategy to a complete strategic realignment. We rely on collaborative co-creation, because a strategy is only effective if it is implemented by all relevant stakeholders.
The joint development of a vision and a mission often marks the beginning of the strategy development process. Through our specially designed workshop and interview formats, we ensure confident management of this multi-stakeholder process. Based on the vision and mission, the next step involves developing the sustainability strategy and sub-strategies for relevant departments. This includes identifying ambitious and achievable goals at the company and departmental levels, as well as deriving concrete measures to achieve these goals.
You have developed your sustainability strategy, derived goals and measures from it, and are now ready for implementation?
We help our clients on their transformation journey towards greater sustainability and support them as a partner during the implementation phase – as expert project managers and catalysts. Together with our clients, we develop concepts for implementing individual measures and assist them in measuring progress, for example, by developing customized KPI dashboards.
We support our clients with internal and external communication – from management reports and employee communication to sustainability reports. Conference formats and the creation and publication of edited works are also part of our service portfolio.
Within the scope of internal communication, we help our clients build acceptance and commitment among employees and other relevant stakeholders for their sustainability strategy and for necessary changes on the transformation path towards greater sustainability.
Whether according to DNK, GRI, or other standards – we offer our clients expert guidance in preparing their sustainability report.
We have experience with various conference formats and support our clients from conception, through defining and compiling content, acquiring speakers, to expert support on the conference day.
From the initial idea to implementation, we support our clients (co-editors) in the creation of edited works. In coordination with the co-editors, we handle the definition of content, the acquisition of authors, the creation of various templates, the content review of contributions, and coordination with the publisher.
We support our clients in the expert evaluation of initiatives and work with them to develop company-specific positions and policy papers to create the right framework conditions for a successful transition of the economy.
Through tailored training programmes, we impart knowledge on key methods and concepts of sustainability management. Whether general training formats on sustainability for management or employee levels, or specialised knowledge for selected departments – we gladly share our expertise and draw upon a broad network of partners with various specialisations.
