Embedding

SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES ARE BUSINESS ISSUES

Take a look around. The most successful businesses are making sustainability a key part of daily business. Businesses that get this right integrate sustainability into core business processes and train and engage their employees to be the drivers of initiatives that transform sustainability into a source of value for the business.

Services

Engagement and Capacity Building

  • Awareness-raising: Develop shared awareness of sustainable development and what it means to the organization
  • Engagement: Engage senior management to secure commitment and mobilize all levels of the organization to become change agents, co-developers, and implementers of your organization's sustainability roadmap;
  • Skills development: scope the skills needed to support the organization’s sustainability objectives and equip people with the skills and tools needed to operationalize your strategy.

Decision-making processes and systems

  • Developing the methods by which sustainability criteria are taken into account in strategic and operational planning;
  • Analysis, mapping and redevelopment of key business processes in such areas as: human resources, financial and capital budgeting, project management, marketing and sales.

Cross-Functional Partnering and Collaboration

  • Applying approaches in multi-stakeholder partnering to the context of the modern organization, EEM facilitates collaboration between cross-functional, multi-disciplinary, internal organizational silos. This collaboration confronts differing attitudes and draws upon the business’s reservoir of best practices, resources and abilities, in order to develop a consistent approach to addressing the business’s sustainability objectives.

Case Studies

  • Embedding Sustainability in Capital Project Development

    EEM worked with project engineers at a major Canadian mining company to embed consideration of key sustainability factors in the evaluation of capital expenditure projects.

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  • Embedding Sustainability in Engineering Projects

    Working for a leading Canadian project-engineering firm EEM facilitated the creation of an action plan for embedding sustainability in EPCM projects.

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