To set the guard rails for your sustainability strategy, it makes sense to take a look at your own mission and vision. What do you do, for which purpose and how? What do you want to achieve and what does society gain from it? What makes your company special and why should people believe you? The mission becomes the common denominator internally, the vision your promise externally. We support you in precisely elaborating, examining and formulating your understanding of sustainability. In this way, we create the basis for a differentiated positioning.

The environment analysis shows how your company and its previous sustainability commitment are positioned in the market along your value chain. We define the key environmental and social challenges in your core markets and the associated expectations of your stakeholders. You receive an assessment of which requirements, expectations and topics are relevant to your core business today and in the future. What is already measurable, what developments are noticeable in the industry and what is on the horizon? What are the risks and opportunities? We provide you with a radar to keep an eye on sustainability aspects along value chains of individual products or services.

It is important to know your stakeholders and their influence on your business well. Who are your stakeholders internally and externally? What expectations regarding sustainability and corporate responsibility do these stakeholders have? Who is skeptical of you and who is deliberately working against you? How much influence do individual groups or people actually have? We support you in creating and evaluating an appropriate "stakeholder map" as a basis for developing a sustainability strategy that takes into account the most important people, groups and opinions right from the start.

The aim of the materiality analysis is to set the right thematic focus for your sustainability and CR activities, both internally and externally, and to meet the requirements of a sustainability report in accordance with GRI. In several sub-steps, we work with you to determine whether and how global challenges for sustainable development affect your core business, what stakeholder expectations go hand in hand with this, and what this means for your strategic and operational derivations. We are guided in particular by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Your competitors operate in the same environment as you and face the same challenges and opportunities. To differentiate yourself from your competitors, it is important to understand them. Only then can you position yourself clearly and stand out in the perception of your stakeholders. We support you not only with competitor analyses, but also with the definition of your specific ambition profile in differentiation to your competitors.

Together we define the strategic framework for your sustainability program. We set the guardrails on the way to realizing your goals in the areas of products & services, value chain and development of the business environment. Since strategy development must always be customized, we tailor our concepts and methods to your company.

To enable you to successfully implement your strategy, we work with you to define short, medium and long-term goals. These are based on the external framework conditions, expected dynamics and the performance of your organization. Ideally, we formulate measurable key performance indicators (KPIs) or qualitative target corridors to help you manage them.