STRATEGIC SUSTAINABILITY CONSULTING Sustainability Strategy to Drive Business Value EKOS partners with our clients to integrate a sustainability platform into core business strategies to secure competitive differentiation and advantage. Strategies are designed to improve financial performance, build brand value, assess and reduce your carbon footprint, save money from reducing energy and waste, increase customer loyalty, develop and design sustainable technologies and products, drive innovation, enroll your supply chain, manage stakeholder relationships, and engage employees. The typical flow builds on what the client already has in place and underway, developing a customized approach that accelerates progress, with the target usually of being the leading competitor in its industry. Sustainability Roadmap We help you develop a strategic roadmap for implementing sustainability, identifying priority strategies, initiatives, and major streams of action on a multi-year timeline, and ensuring you have the essential leadership alignment, education, communication, and change management. Balanced Scorecard Integration We design sustainability to be integrated into your core strategic, operational, and performance management system (including integrating sustainability into balanced scorecard strategy maps, Hoshin Kanri or Management by Policy), clearly defining sustainability Strategic Objectives, Measures, Targets, and Initiatives, and monitoring progress against plans. Since 1996, EKOS has helped executive teams execute performance-focused sustainability strategies at many of North America's major companies (e.g., AT&T, Boeing, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Boeing Employees Credit Union, Ballard Power Systems, Nortel).
SUSTAINABILITY BENCHMARKING & BEST PRACTICES EKOS offers customized comparisons of your company's sustainability performance with the best practices of global and industry leaders, competitors, and customers as a foundation for strategic planning. We help you develop strategies for strategic positioning and adapt successful practices to your company. In collaboration with our Fortune 50 clients, EKOS has benchmarked global best practices in Europe, Japan and the US, and developed a proprietary benchmarking assessment tool and process to help companies assess their progress and position against peers and stakeholders (suppliers, competitors and customers). This benchmarking process uses EKOS’ assessment tool which is adapted for your specific requirements. We enable clients to assess their competitive positioning against 20-25 global industry peers, suppliers, customers, and competitors. The analysis rates and ranks the key companies in your value stream on a scale from 1 to 100. The EKOS Benchmarking Process is a three month analysis and report out which lays the groundwork for executing a sustainability strategy, and a communications strategy. The Sustainability Integration vectors include:
INDUSTRY-WIDE SUSTAINABILITY INNOVATION We design interventions for industry-wide sustainability analysis, goals, education, collaboration, initiatives, and innovation. We help companies develop and build business plans for sustainable products and services, new partnerships in the value stream, and new sustainable business models.
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EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT EKOS designs programs for increasing employee engagement with your company's corporate social responsibility efforts, based on successful strategies implemented in leading companies.
EKOS Research on Best Practices for Engaging Employees in Sustainability For over a year, EKOS conducted a comprehensive investigation of employee engagement approaches used by global leaders in sustainability to engage the hearts, minds, and contributions of employees in and through sustainability. We set out to go "beyond green teams" (although we do look at a whole range of ways companies are using employee-driven actions to identify and implement energy, waste, volunteerism, and other sustainability-related improvements). We examined how leaders were building sustainability into every person's job, linking sustainability with lean and six sigma, developing more strategic volunteerism and community investment, and engaging the whole workforce in sustainability-driven business innovation and improvement. We uncovered effective approaches and keys to success. Here are a few of the questions that guided our inquiry: ♦What tangible and intangible business results are leading companies achieving by engaging employees in sustainability? We are convinced that proactively engaging every employee is the one of the critical building blocks to truly integrating sustainability in strategies, products, and production practices. Insights, imagination, and ingenuity of employees are the engine of innovation. An organization's ability to engage employees in sustainability is an important competency and a powerful source of competitive advantage. Further, engaging all employees is vital to achieving the scale of change required to propel the transformation to sustainable business. "Insights, imagination, and ingenuity of employees are the engine of innovation." Contact EKOS to schedule a presentation of findings from our benchmarking study on employee engagement in and through sustainability. This topic is relevant for Executives, Sustainability/CSR officers and managers, Line management, EH&S, Human Resource Managers, Executive & Leadership Development, Brand & Communications personnel, & Community Engagement and Philanthropy. LRowledge (at) EKOSi (dot) com
PREORDER Benchmarking Report: Igniting the Core This report summarizes what leading companies do to achieve improved business results through sustainability implementation driven by employee engagement. If organizations are to achieve the ever-growing requirements for sustainable strategies, products, and production practices, they must move beyond the choir of early adopters and fully engage every employee in the effort. Further, although leading companies have achieved impressive improvement in environmental and social performance, the scale of change required and opportunity for strategic advantage calls for a greater integration in the entire organization - sustainability must be part of everyone's job and incorporated into every function, aspect of the business, and the entire value stream.
EKOS Leaders' Workshop for Engaging Employees In Sustainability Ignite the imagination and initiative of every employee in accelerating sustainability improvement and innovation and achieve sustainability-driven innovation and business results. This workshop provides a foundation for designing a more strategic, integrated approach to employee engagement in CSR - supporting not only implementation of sustainability, but also employee engagement and business performance more generally. Build a customized approach based for a step-leap advancement of employee engagement in sustainability based on best practices of leading companies.
EKOS Services for Engaging Employees in Sustainability BENCHMARKING RESEARCH PRESENTATION BENCHMARKING RESEARCH REPORT (PREORDER) PLANNING WORKSHOP COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT INTERNAL SURVEY of YOUR EMPLOYEES' ENGAGEMENT IN SUSTAINABILITY CONSULTING For more information LRowledge (at) EKOSi (dot) com
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