Sustainable Business Development
Sustainability begins with the choice of business model. It continues with the design of the product or service portfolio and production, up to the marketing & sales strategy via the respective channels.

With my with Sustainable Business Development Sustainability Consulting I support you to make your business development more sustainable – also in the long term with regular quality checks.

Start & Assess

Sustainability standards and regulations

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Sustainability standards and regulations

Determine the relevant sustainability standards and regulations for your company. Conducting a risk analysis to identify and assess potential risks related to sustainability issues.

Sustainability Assessment

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Sustainability Assessment

Create and conduct online assessments and interviews with your relevant stakeholders to determine the sustainability status quo of your business development practices.

Analysis & Roadmap

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Sustainability standards and regulations

Analyzing the data collected in the assessment and identifying potential for improvement along your value chain. Defining and prioritizing the measures in an action plan.

Plan & Strategize

Strategy development and goal setting

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Strategy development and goal setting

Determining and prioritizing the key sustainability issues of your corporate strategy and the processes along the value chain. Defining the sustainability goals, key performance indicators (KPI) and metrics.

Sustainable business models and business practices

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Sustainable business models and business practices

Analyzing your operational business model and creating a fit/gap analysis for the introduction of a sustainable business model. Creating a transformation plan to increase the effectiveness and sustainability of the processes along your value chain.

Digital support of business processes

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Digital support of business processes

Determining the essential business processes and evaluating the digital support options through standard or individual software. Determining the ROI and the necessary measures for implementation. Prioritize and plan activities.

Manage & Optimize

Sustainable supply chain management

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Strategy development and goal setting

Checking the fulfillment of necessary compliance guidelines. Modeling of a sustainable supplier management, from the selection of suppliers to evaluation and relationship management. Creation of a fit/gap analysis including a business analysis. Prioritization of the measures to be implemented in an action plan.

Sustainable product and service design

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Sustainable product and service design

Analyzing the existing processes of product and service design. Development of a sustainable design process, considering topics such as Anything-as-a-Service (XaaS), Cradle-to-Cradle, energy efficiency and inclusive design, supported by agile methods such as MVP, Design Thinking or SCRUM. Planning the changes necessary for the introduction.

Optimization of operational processes

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Optimization of operational processes

Identify opportunities to optimize existing operations in terms of resource conservation, energy efficiency, water use, waste reduction, packaging, and transportation. Creation of a cost/benefit analysis and an action plan.

Sustainable Marketing & Sales

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Sustainable Marketing & Sales

Create and carry out a sustainability assessment of your portfolio, marketing and (direct and indirect) sales functions. Identifying and implementing improvement potentials of the product and service portfolio, the routes-to-market, the go-to-market, the customer approach, value proposition, incentive structures and partner ecosystems.

Sustainable customer service

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Sustainable customer service

Creation of a sustainable customer service concept, including the topics of returns, logistics, product maintenance (predictive maintenance, VR), product maintenance, repairs, product return. Evaluation of digital tools to support service processing and customer care.

Sustainable innovation management

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Sustainable innovation management

Integrating sustainability topics and methods such as biomimicry, open innovation, crowdsourcing, and life cycle assessment into the existing innovation processes.

Engage & Communicate

Employee engagement

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Employee engagement

Developing strategies and incentive systems to promote employee commitment to sustainability, including workshops and training.

Stakeholder dialogue and participation

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Stakeholder dialogue and participation

Identifying the key stakeholders. Preparing, conducting, and following up on a regular stakeholder dialogue regarding sustainability issues.

Customer engagement

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Customer engagement

Developing strategies and implement actions to engage customers in the company's sustainability initiatives.
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