Based on solid scientific consensus, the fundamental sustainability principles of The Natural Step are a guiding light by which your organisation can navigate towards sustainability. New Angles team members are qualified in their use. For their translation into practical principles for sustainable business see the New Angles-Emerging World Forum Vision 2050 Change Framework.
It is rare to find an executive committee in spontaneous alignment, even on its definition of sustainability, and even rarer to find a top team in agreement on a vision for the company’s sustainable future. New Angles proposes simple, quick and powerful tools to work on this prerequisite for effective change.
“Dialogue is aimed at ... changing the way the thought process occurs collectively.” (David Bohm)
Structured dialogue is a way to break down habitual modes of relating to others,
for example between your buyers and suppliers,
or your company and an NGO, and to co-construct a new shared view of problems and potential solutions.
New Angles has the dialogue tools to make this happen.
We can also help you find the right strategic alliance partner and design the partnership.
New Angles recommends a sustainability transformation process developed with the Emerging World Forum for the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
Using the Probe for Sustainable Business™ diagnostics and benchmarking toolbox developed by Comparison International Ltd. (UK), we provide training and support to analyse the sustainability shortfalls and opportunities across your value chain, then use multi-sector international benchmarking to identify the key sustainability projects for your company.
New Angles team members, working with the Global Reporting Initiative, are qualified to guide your sustainability reporting and to support your implementation of the ISO 14000 and 26000 standards of best practice in environmental and social responsibility.
A key benefit from successful implementation of a corporate responsibility programme is the development of the company’s intangible assets in such a way as to enhance long-term value. The New Angles Sustainable Business Monitor provides a framework to facilitate management of sustainability and CSR policy with this in mind, and to make sure your CSR priorities are in alignment with your business strategy.
Sustainability ambassadors help your company create change from within. New Angles offers a train-the-trainers programme enabling qualified people (not necessarily from management) to become sustainability ambassadors and to train others in the principles and practice of sustainable business. The training also equips participants to take on the role of change agents within the organisation, representing the change project while working in tandem with line management.
Culture change is more than a question of intellectual understanding.
New Angles offers seminars and workshops on getting to grips with the underlying realities of sustainability and its importance for business strategy.
Led by New Angles facilitators and highly regarded for their originality and cost- effectiveness, seminars are offered on an open-enrolment basis in central Paris and Lausanne.
They can also be tailor-made to your requirements and organised at a venue of your choice. [See Workshops page for details]
The significant changes implied by the pursuit of sustainability in business clearly call for creativity and innovative thinking. Tapping into people’s natural creativity and capacity for innovation is therefore an important enabler. Under the title ‘Making Connections’ New Angles proposes artist-led workshops using creative techniques to help business people discover new connections and explore insights they might otherwise ignore. The result is that participants - at all levels in the company - can more easily distance themselves from business-as-usual thinking, overcome traditional functional and corporate boundaries and imagine new solutions for unlocking value.
To mobilise a change in thinking and behaviour in an executive team, a business unit or an entire company, it is helpful for as many people as possible to experience the same ‘aha!’ moment of seeing the world differently. Jointly with Celemi New Angles has developed a model-based dialogue tool that delivers this experience by inviting participants to take strategic business and project management decisions in an evolving business landscape, in which considerations of stakeholder interest and sustainability must be taken into account for real value to be created. This mini-simulation can be run simultaneously for any number of participants, individually or in teams, and can be programmed to incorporate your company’s specific business parameters and financial data.