Sustainability

Sustainability is today's main future-oriented pro-social and pro-environmental agenda. At the moment corporate sustainability tends to be focused on key global issues, such as climate change. Looking ahead, it is set to become a transformational new organizing pattern for business. Any organization wanting to become more sustainable should consider the long-run shape of sustainability as well as the issue-centric approach.

Synthesys offers guidance for adopting this approach, which includes: sustainability-based business models based on industrial ecology principles mapped to a value loop (a closed-loop version of the value chain); a sustainable customer value design process; sustainability-based performance measurement using a hybrid organization performance and sustainability assessment framework; and holistic strategic governance based on rethinking the entire process of strategy formulation for the sustainable corporation of the future.