Course : Integrating Sustainable Development into the Company's StrategyTurn sustainability challenges into drivers of performance, innovation, and resilience
Practical course - 2d
- 14h00 - Ref. D1D
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 | Analyze the effects of environmental, societal, and governance transitions (ESG criteria) on their company’s strategic context and business model |
| Assess the risks, opportunities, and impacts associated with environmental, social, and governance issues, taking into account their strategic importance and time horizon |
| Balancing transformation priorities by reconciling resilience, value creation, capacity for action, and short- and long-term performance |
| Develop strategic guidelines that integrate sustainability into the organization’s vision, governance, and decision-making processes |
| Develop an initial roadmap and a sustainable performance management system tailored to their company |
Intended audience
Executives, members of the Executive Committee/Management Committee
Prerequisites
None
Practical details
Teaching methods
Self-assessment, case studies based on real-life situations, time for individual reflection and small-group work, peer-to-peer exchanges of best practices and experiences, simulations of executive committee meetings, and decision-making exercises incorporating strategic, economic, and operational constraints.Methods and tools: the gradual development of a personalized strategic roadmap directly applicable within the company; PESTEL analysis (incorporating environmental, social, and governance issues); ESG risk and opportunity matrix; sustainable SWOT analysis; RACI matrix; etc.
Course schedule
1 Understanding the Changes in the Strategic Environment
- Identify major structural environmental, societal, and economic transitions (climate, biodiversity, resources, energy, demographic trends, social expectations, and changes in practices—such as the CSRD under European regulation)
- Analyze changes in the expectations of key stakeholders: customers, investors, employees, partners, local communities, and government agencies
- Conduct a strategic analysis of the context: weak signals, interdependencies, underlying trends, and sources of uncertainty
- Use the principles of materiality and double materiality as frameworks for inquiry, without a detailed regulatory approach
- Identify international benchmarks relevant to decision-making: Sustainable Development Goals and recognized frameworks (UN SDGs, Paris Agreement, ESG standards, TCFD principles)
Compétences visées
- Conduct a self-assessment of the external pressures affecting your business and identify the three most significant transitions
- Analyze a company facing multiple transitions and identify the strategic decisions that have become priorities
- Work in small groups to create a map of short-, medium-, and long-term risks and opportunities, and then compare the assumptions
Activités pédagogiques
- PESTEL Analysis (Political, Economic, Sociocultural, Technological, and Environmental factors) incorporating ESG issues
- Future Scenarios
- ESG Risks and Opportunities Matrix
Outils et méthodes
2 Assess the impact on the business model
- Identify the components of the business model: value proposition, customer segments, resources, activities, partners, revenues, and costs
- Identify critical dependencies and impacts throughout the value chain
- Assessing physical, transition, and reputational risks: potential impacts on operations, assets, markets, and financing
- Identify opportunities for adaptation and innovation: simplicity, circularity, resource efficiency, changes in supply, and new services
- Compare strategic options across short-, medium-, and long-term time horizons and assess their economic and operational implications
Compétences visées
- Apply a long-term perspective to your company’s Business Model Canvas and identify the components that need to be secured, adapted, or transformed
- Analyze your value chain to identify two critical dependencies and two opportunities for value creation.
- Facilitate a simulated COMEX session focusing on maintaining, adapting, and transforming the business model, and then formalize the decision-making criteria
Activités pédagogiques
- Sustainable Business Model Canvas
- Value Chain Analysis
- Sustainable SWOT Analysis
Outils et méthodes
3 Transforming the vision into strategic priorities and organizing governance
- Formulating a Strategic Vision: Linking Purpose, Resilience, Competitiveness, Societal Impact, and the Transformation Horizon
- Define decision-making criteria: strategic impact, value creation, urgency, feasibility, resources, risks of inaction, and acceptability
- Select a limited number of priority areas that are consistent with the company's capabilities
- Clarify the roles of the CEO, the Executive Committee, and key functions in decision-making, resource allocation, and monitoring
- Integrating sustainability into existing processes: strategic planning, budgeting, investments, risk management, and performance reviews
- Translate the selected strategic directions into action plans that are consistent with the company's capabilities
Compétences visées
- Formulate a sustainable goal aligned with the company’s vision and break it down into no more than three strategic priorities
- Prioritize strategic directions using impact and feasibility criteria, and then clearly explain the trade-offs involved
- Defend your priorities during a simulated strategy committee meeting and adjust them in light of financial, operational, and human resource objections
- Develop a 12–24-month roadmap that outlines priorities, initial actions, responsible parties, milestones, and conditions for success
Activités pédagogiques
- Impact/Feasibility Matrix
- Sustainable Strategic Roadmap Template
- Multicriteria Matrix for Strategic Decision-Making
- RACI Matrix (Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed)
Outils et méthodes
4 Driving Sustainable Performance
- Select indicators that are relevant to decision-making and aligned with the overall strategy: results, impacts, risks, progress, and capacity for transformation
- Integrate financial and non-financial data into a streamlined dashboard
- Integrate monitoring into existing governance structures and management cycles
- Define the conditions for communication that is consistent with decisions, actions, and results in order to limit the risk of greenwashing
- Organize steering committee meetings to adjust priorities and the roadmap based on the results obtained
Compétences visées
- Select five to eight metrics that are useful to the Executive Committee/Management Committee and explain the connection between each metric and an expected decision
- Present the roadmap as part of a strategic review, gather feedback from peers, and formalize the selected adjustments
Activités pédagogiques
- ESG Dashboard
- Greenwashing Prevention Checklist
Outils et méthodes
PARTICIPANTS
Executives, members of the Executive Committee/Management Committee
PREREQUISITES
None
TRAINER QUALIFICATIONS
The experts leading the training are specialists in the covered subjects. They have been approved by our instructional teams for both their professional knowledge and their teaching ability, for each course they teach. They have at least five to ten years of experience in their field and hold (or have held) decision-making positions in companies.
ASSESSMENT TERMS
The trainer evaluates each participant’s academic progress throughout the training using multiple choice, scenarios, hands-on work and more.
Participants also complete a placement test before and after the course to measure the skills they’ve developed.
TERMS AND DEADLINES
Registration must be completed 24 hours before the start of the training.
ACCESSIBILITY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Do you need special accessibility accommodations? Contact Mrs. Fosse, Disability Manager, at psh-accueil@orsys.fr to review your request and its feasibility.
Executives, members of the Executive Committee/Management Committee
PREREQUISITES
None
TRAINER QUALIFICATIONS
The experts leading the training are specialists in the covered subjects. They have been approved by our instructional teams for both their professional knowledge and their teaching ability, for each course they teach. They have at least five to ten years of experience in their field and hold (or have held) decision-making positions in companies.
ASSESSMENT TERMS
The trainer evaluates each participant’s academic progress throughout the training using multiple choice, scenarios, hands-on work and more.
Participants also complete a placement test before and after the course to measure the skills they’ve developed.
TEACHING AIDS AND TECHNICAL RESOURCES
• The main teaching aids and instructional methods used in the training are audiovisual aids, documentation and course material, hands-on application exercises and corrected exercises for practical training courses, case studies and coverage of real cases for training seminars.
• At the end of each course or seminar, ORSYS provides participants with a course evaluation questionnaire that is analysed by our instructional teams.
• A check-in sheet for each half-day of attendance is provided at the end of the training, along with a course completion certificate if the trainee attended the entire session.
• The main teaching aids and instructional methods used in the training are audiovisual aids, documentation and course material, hands-on application exercises and corrected exercises for practical training courses, case studies and coverage of real cases for training seminars.
• At the end of each course or seminar, ORSYS provides participants with a course evaluation questionnaire that is analysed by our instructional teams.
• A check-in sheet for each half-day of attendance is provided at the end of the training, along with a course completion certificate if the trainee attended the entire session.
TERMS AND DEADLINES
Registration must be completed 24 hours before the start of the training.
ACCESSIBILITY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Do you need special accessibility accommodations? Contact Mrs. Fosse, Disability Manager, at psh-accueil@orsys.fr to review your request and its feasibility.
This programme is an original creation, developed by the teaching teams at ORSYS Formation. Any reproduction, representation, adaptation or use, in whole or in part, without the prior written authorisation of ORSYS, is strictly prohibited. ORSYS reserves the right to take any action necessary to protect its intellectual property rights.
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This programme is an original creation, developed by the teaching teams at ORSYS Formation. Any reproduction, representation, adaptation or use, in whole or in part, without the prior written authorisation of ORSYS, is strictly prohibited. ORSYS reserves the right to take any action necessary to protect its intellectual property rights.