“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
Dame Jane Goodall
Sustainable Business Practises
Sustainability is a megatrend with urgent action demanded by:
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Growth of consumers buying sustainable products and brands
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Investors, buyers, and advertisers blacklisting companies who fail sustainability criteria
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Voters empowering more government legislation (e.g. plastics, energy, water, etc)
Boards and executive teams often have a good idea of where they need to head to when it comes to sustainability, but many organisations don’t have the ‘How to’ capabilities to deliver this, leaving a frustrating gap.
We help clients deliver customer value with the minimum waste of resources, in a way that engages all their stakeholders, and builds the organisation’s capabilities around sustainability.
Our program delivers results today, and assures your future by:
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Focusing on material issues
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Building your capabilities
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Delivering your objectives
Filling The Gap Between Knowing & Doing
The Future:Able³ Solution
Future:Able³ solves this problem for clients, leveraging the strengths and DNA of Siempre and Intent Group.
The merge of Intent Group's expertise in Lean, Supply Chain Optimisation and Business Process Improvement with Siempre's Sustainable Business and Commercial know-how, enables Future:Able³ to help businesses to meet today's needs, without sacrificing the future, by focusing on the important issues, embedding capability and delivering objectives.
The Future:Able³ Model
Support consumer environmental trends
Reduce waste
Re-use resources
Create sustainable business growth
How does it work?
Future:Able³ brings sustainability to life, by meeting today’s needs and assuring the future of your business, through improvements in:
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Productivity and financial gains
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Environment and climate impact
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Welfare and culture
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Compliance and corporate reputation
Deliver your business objectives by gaining a deep understanding of the imperatives and opportunities, and by using a roadmap to develop the necessary processes, systems, culture and leadership.
The Process
We provide trusted advisors to guide you through building your business case, designing your customised roadmap and implementing the programme of work. The outputs form a coherent service that efficiently meets your needs, with insight, including legislative compliance.
Our model has four stages used to transform business for sustainability
Objectives & Scope
Assess
Roadmap
Execute
Audit Sustainable Business Value Drivers
Future:Able³ assesses 13 business value drivers that are core to sustainability, and teases out how material each of these are to your organisation. It then tracks the stage of maturity of the important dimensions as your organisation grows.
Reducing your impact – a lower carbon footprint and moving towards a circular economy
Creating clear and concise messages to drive increased profit and new revenues
Build brand equity and social connection with compelling sustainability outcomes
Clear resources and capabilities to deliver the value
“I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act. I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if our house is on fire. Because it is.”
Greta Thumberg
Winner of the 2019 KidsRights Children’s Peace Prize
If your business is ready to begin its sustainable continuous improvement journey, for more information about how we can help, contact Noël Thomson on 0275 81 81 26 or nthomson@intentgroup.co.nz, or Allan Birch on 021 930 992 or allan@siempre.co.nz
