Corporate Sustainability Consulting
Integrate sustainability as a growth driver in your corporate strategy by applying lean principles
Corporate sustainability has become an essential priority for businesses today. It aligns with society’s ethical and environmental expectations and serves as a viable strategy for medium and long-term success.
This concept goes beyond mere regulatory compliance or stand-alone initiatives and has become widely integrated into organizations’ operations, culture, and overall strategy.
Our Corporate Sustainability Consulting embeds ESG principles into your business strategy, driving efficiency, innovation, and long-term success.
By adopting ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) practices, companies not only contribute to preserving natural resources and mitigating climate change but also boost their resilience, innovation, and market competitiveness.
Traditional Approach
Lean Approach
Traditional Approach
Stand-alone ESG strategy
Lean Approach
ESG embedded into corporate strategy
Traditional Approach
Disorganized, unfocused, unsuited efforts
Lean Approach
Sustainability management based on data
Traditional Approach
No measure of ESG metrics
Lean Approach
Sustainability is a growth driver
Rather than developing a sustainability strategy, companies should embed sustainability into their overall business strategy.
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Impact
Sales increase
Costs reduction
Talent acquisition and retention
Risk mitigation
Investment attraction
Innovation incentive
Our Solutions
We bring a full range of capabilities to help you integrate sustainability into corporate strategy by identifying critical ESG aspects and implementing breakthrough transformations to achieve sustainable goals
- Create a task force
- Introduction to sustainability
- Stakeholder mapping and listening sessions
- Dual materiality analysis
- Measure and compile sustainability KPIs
- Survey risks and opportunities
- Select sustainability improvement initiatives and conduct a cost-benefit analysis
- Sustainability roadmap design
- Sustainability governance model design
- Select report structure according to chosen standard/guideline (e.g., GRI, ESRS)
- Define and implement a data collection and consolidation plan
- Report content development based on prior analyses (materiality analysis, risk and opportunity identification, gap analysis, sustainability roadmap, indicators, etc.) and gathered data
- Optimize report design and layout
- Validate the final document by the organization
- Reporting to reference frameworks used (GRI, ESRS, etc.)
- Efficient resource management (energy, water, and materials)
- Mitigate emissions and manage climate adaptation
- Implement waste reduction strategies and circular economy
- Develop sustainable products
- Adopt diversity, equity, and inclusion practices
- Develop human capital
- Promote employee health and safety initiatives
- Responsible sourcing and supply chain resilience
- Develop management practices based on transparency, ethics, and anti-corruption
- Support in implementing other sustainability tools (taxonomy, certifications, due diligence, etc.)
- Introduction to sustainability and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance)
- Environmental dimension (E)
- Social dimension (S)
- Governance dimension (G)
- Integrate financial dimension
- Approach to implementing a sustainability strategy
- Exercises
- Case studies
Guide to Sustainability Transformation
In response to growing stakeholder concerns, companies now define their success in ways that go far beyond the profit they generate, turning sustainable practices into an emerging strategic ambition. However, ESG has had a parallel agenda and is still mostly managed as a stand-alone initiative. Sustainability objectives thus compete with business management, resulting in disorganized execution and slow progress. In this guide, we present the 4 steps to integrate sustainability into your organization’s strategy:
- Review and plan the business strategy
- Deploy the strategy until the point of impact
- Implement the strategic breakthrough initiatives
- Monitor results and implement countermeasures
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Kaizen Institute works directly with the client teams, with a “Hands On” and “Teaching by Doing” approach
Kaizen Institute works directly with the client teams, with a “Hands On” and “Learning by Doing” approach