Solutions

The first major decision becomes how best to manage this increasingly important topic. We believe the solution for many firms will take the form of an outsourced team of experts that serve as your in-house sustainability management team.

Our outsourcing solution allows our clients to put sustainability management expertise in place at their organization without a large upfront investment of time, money or people. Key benefits of implementing our Sustainability Management team as a strategic business services partner include:

• Improved business focus by keeping your talent pool focused on your core business activities rather than “moonlighting” on sustainability initiatives
• Reduced Operating Costs by not staffing a full time Sustainability Manager, Director, or Department
• Faster access to dedicated sustainability expertise
• Reduced Time-to-Market of your sustainability program helping to enhance your competitive position in the marketplace.

We believe that every business can benefit from a Sustainability Management System (SMS), a true decision-making tool that will provide an analytical framework to measure, review and continuously improve your organization’s sustainability investments in its operations.  As with any investment, having an investment management plan and system in place is essential so you can realize value and make business decisions aimed at achieving higher economic, environmental, and social returns from those investments.

Often our clients do not have a vision or scope in mind for their sustainability agenda nor do they know where to start.  Our Sustainability Managers will first work with your management team to develop a vision and scope that is based on your organization’s unique composition and set of constraints, resulting in the implementation of a tailored SMS that will create the greatest value.

This first step followed by an existing conditions analysis and stakeholder engagement effort, creates the framework needed to produce an action and management plan that will guide the organizational implementation of chosen initiatives through time.

Further, we provide your company’s executive management team with quarterly performance tracking reports with our management discussion and analysis of the sustainability program.  This ongoing service is absolutely critical to the success of your investment as it provides the monitoring required to gauge the performance of programs so that financial and human capital investments are generating desired returns.  And to the extent they are not generating desired returns, our clients are able to reallocate assets to alternative sustainability investments that may perform better.  Ultimately, this measurement, review, and continuous improvement are the building blocks of long term success.