We enable companies to implement sustainability
Sustainability is no longer just a popular trend. Rather, sustainability has become a necessity for all parties involved along the value-added chain! Some of the central social, political and economic challenges of our time are ultimately related to the question: How sustainable is our way of living and our economy?
As a business, you are directly confronted with a variety of different requirements relating to this topic. It is a question of identifying and systematically processing the most important sustainability challenges for your company. These three pillars of sustainability must be taken into account: environment, economy and society
In order to ensure this holistic approach, the appropriate processes must be applied.
We offer you services in the following areas:
1. Measuring Sustainability
What is your sustainability status? What are your strengths and weaknesses?
The aim is to measure and structure existing sustainability activities (“make the invisible visible”). Recording the sustainability status in your company means examining aspects of sustainable management (strategy, target system, communication) as well as the three pillars of sustainability within the relevant areas. The core instrument is the ZNU (Centre for Sustainable Corporate Leadership) Sustainability Check, which makes it possible to measure the sustainability status in all the areas and to create a trigger for the sustainability transformation of your business. The ZNU-Sustainability Check provides you with a comprehensive internal assessment, monitoring, and benchmarking methodology. Furthermore, by enabling a comparison with other companies, it offers you external benchmarking of your sustainability performance. If you would like to pursue a certification process of your sustainability activities as a continuation of ISO 50001, 14001 (for example according to the ZNU Standard), the Check serves as a suitable introductory step.
Our service:
- ZNU-Sustainability Check
- Product hot spots
- Environmental and life cycle assessments at the product and facilities level
2. Stakeholder Dialogue
How do you initiate and organize the dialogue with your stakeholders?
The benefits of a stakeholder survey for your company are diverse: it allows a targeted approach to your internal and external stakeholders and serves to identify key sustainability issues from the perspective of the different stakeholders. In addition, the survey enables an external comparison of the self-assessment of the sustainability management of your company. The results are an important basis for the strategic orientation of sustainability management and for credible sustainability communication.
Our service:
- Stakeholder analysis
- Stakeholder survey
- Employee interviews
- Stakeholder forum
- Round tables with stakeholders
- Principles of cooperation -> Stakeholder cooperation
3. Sustainability Strategy
What are the key issues to tackle and what is your sustainability plan?
For the targeted strategic orientation of the company in regards to sustainability, three key areas are examined: the company, the products and the relevant stakeholders. Our sound strategy development approach provides the basis for an individual, credible and consistent sustainability strategy. The sustainability strategy encompasses the economic, environmental and social responsibility of your company as well as the dialogue with the various stakeholders (in particular customers, suppliers, employees and shareholders) relating to perception and continuous improvement. Based on the results of various stakeholder workshops, employee interviews and group analyses, together with you we develop your medium-term sustainability plan.
Our service:
- ZNU Sustainability Check
- Product hot spots
- Stakeholder analysis
- Materiality matrix
- Employee interviews
- International checks (e.g. Poland)
- Visioning processes
- Identity quest & storytelling
- Strategy and road mapping workshops
- Innovation workshops
4. Sustainable Organizational Development
How do you bring sustainability into the mainstream of your company?
The fjol consulting approach comprises various modules that include development of broad-based sustainability awareness among employees, their comprehensive and targeted qualification, and the establishment of a continuous process of change to ensure improved sustainability. Each module is defined by its conveyance of extensive theoretical expertise and practical application possibilities. The sustainability agenda can be best anchored in the company by assembling a sustainability team and introducing appropriate internal structures. To ensure a profound and long-lasting change process, sustainability must be successively integrated throughout the organization.
Our service:
- In-house training
- Team building and development
- Pit-stop sustainability team
- Department-related workshops
- Workshops in the management team
- Coaching (individual coaching, team coaching, leadership coaching)
5. Climate and Resource Protection
What is your impact on the environment?
The environmental impact of your business activities can be documented and assessed using climate and / or life-cycle assessments. The relevant data for the calculations is determined by fjol based on a questionnaire, that we tailor to your company’s needs. Founded on internationally recognized standards (in particular the Greenhouse Gas Protocol), the individual climate and life-cycle assessments are then developed for your company. The climate efficiency of the business activity is quantified and explained in a results report. Relevant emission sources are described and first indications for reduction potentials are provided.
Our service:
- Corporate carbon footprint (CCF)
- Product carbon footprint (PCF)
- Ecological footprint
- Water and packaging management check
6. Sustainability Certification
How do you measure and achieve your goals?
The targeted measurement of your sustainability activities calls for and promotes the structuring and further development of your sustainability performance at company and product level. We work with the ZNU Standard of Sustainable Corporate Leadership due to its scientifically-based methodology and compact bundling of the essential sustainability requirements. Compared to the various existing sustainability requirements and food standards, the ZNU Standard of Sustainable Corporate Leadership distinguishes itself by bundling all relevant sustainability requirements from the global to the local level, especially for the FMCG industry. With this holistic approach, the ZNU standard closes a gap and also gives guidance in particular to SMEs. It makes sustainability measurable, feasible, (externally) verifiable, and facilitates manufacturers in credibly proving their sustainability activities to their trading partners and other stakeholders.
Our service:
- Process monitoring to meet the ZNU Standard requirements (early detection, stakeholder engagement, etc.)
- Training as an internal auditor
- Document review
- Internal audits
7. Sustainability Communication
How do you communicate your activities securely and effectively?
Communication of sustainability activities, challenges and successes is an important part of sustainability management. Conveying a concise sustainability profile facilitates dialogue both internally and externally, underscoring the seriousness and credibility of the sustainability commitment of your company. Due to the complexity of the topics, dialogue with stakeholders is an important source of feedback, suggestions for improvement and co-creation of new innovative solutions.
Our service:
- Materiality matrix
- Stakeholder survey
- Critical monitoring of reporting
- Critical review of your sustainability report (conformity check DNK (German Sustainability Code), GRI …) – also in accordance with GRI Guidelines
- External review of the sustainability reports