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STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT
We partner with clients to create social impact strategies centered on sustainability: delivering economic value, while also addressing societal and environmental needs or challenges aligned to the client’s business purpose. We follow a collaborative strategy development process, as we insist on the buy-in of stakeholder to drive success.
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SHARED VALUE INITIATIVES & IMPLEMENTATION
Together with the client, we identify aligned business opportunities, develop Shared Value initiatives benefitting the business and the societies in which it operates. Guided by the Purpose Playbook, we work alongside the client in creating and implementing both strategy and initiatives, focused on sustainability and measurable success.
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ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE
We work with organisations to do a check-in on culture and redirect the use of resources and business processes to ensure an organisation-wide adoption of a Shared Value strategy. Working with individuals, teams and departments, we assist with the cultivation of a purpose-driven environments that extends from the C-Suite to every department.
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MEASUREMENT
Together, we identify a suitable measurement process and system, based on the selected framework: Terms of Reference Impact Management Project, Purpose Playbook or client-specific indicators that include ongoing analysis of results, surveys and data collection to ensure continuous outcomes monitoring.
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EXECUTIVE TRAINING
We provide organisational and executive one-on-one training on Shared Value, the framework and the Purpose Playbook, as well as strategy implementation. The training builds a solid understanding of Shared Value both internally and externally, inclusive of the organisation’s supply chain and value chain.
06. DIALOGUES & PLATFORMS
We provide organisational and executive one-on-one training on Shared Value, the framework and the Purpose Playbook, as well as strategy implementation. The training builds a solid understanding of Shared Value both internally and externally, inclusive of the organisation’s supply chain and value chain.
ABOUT SHARED VALUE
Shared Value is about creating economic value in a way that also creates value for society by addressing its needs and challenges.
Defined by Prof.Michael Porter and Mark Kramer as :”Practises and policies that enhances the competitiveness of an organization while simultaounsly advancing the economic and social condition in the communities in which it operates.”
In Africa, the greatest business opportunities lie in meeting social and environmental needs – this is, and will be, the source of contribution to the growth of the continent’s economy and our entrepreneurs.
It is now more important than ever before for organisations to align their business to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Organisations are expected to go beyond the requirements of regulatory compliance and adjust their operating models to meaningfully address global challenges, including those related to poverty, inequality, climate, environmental degradation, prosperity, and peace and justice.
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