Support the Strategy Development How sustainable do you want to be?

We support companies and organisations in the development and advancement of their strategy.

Whether an existing strategy is to be updated or a new strategy is to be developed, E2 can support you in the strategy process by integrating sustainability issues and formulating them in a manner so that they can be implemented. We can participate in this process with varying degrees of intensity, from accompanying to project management.

E2 focuses on paying equal attention to the economic, social and ecological performance of the company and integrating the prioritised topics into the organisation's processes.

optimal strategy process for important issues and weightings .

An optimal strategy process includes key internal areas and takes into account the expectations of external stakeholders. Both can highlight important issues and weightings. In the preliminary phase of a strategy project, consideration is given to the extent to which the strategy process should already be used for implementing change, e.g. for the internal communication culture.

Sustainability topics have already been defined multiple times: the UN Sustainability Targets (SDGs), the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), the American SASB and the emerging EU taxonomy for sustainable activities, along with basic principles for sectors and regions.

The strategy process uses these sustainability guidelines both ambitiously and pragmatically to set up the organisation prepared for the future - economically, ecologically and socially. The basic elements of a strategy process, such as the analysis of strengths/weaknesses and opportunities/threats (SWOT), go hand in hand with a sustainability perspective, e.g. the "outside-in instead of inside-out" described by Dyllick/Muff.

Despite structural similarities, strategy processes can be very different in practice: from a tightly defined strategy process lasting several months in a large company, to the strategy team of SMEs, to the creative weekend of a small company.

We also help with the development of divisional strategies - e.g. "Sustainable Supply Chain", or with strategies of individual topics, such as a climate strategy. This is useful when a major change is needed in these areas. Otherwise, a sustainability-oriented overall strategy should be aimed at for optimal internal alignment.