Sustainability 4.0 –
Aligning business models
sustainably so that you profit
in the long term.

From sustainability to value-enhancing sustainability

1. The starting point is the surveying of the current “level of sustainability maturity”.
2. Derivation of an individual sustainability strategy, geared towards increasing corporate value.
3. The progress of the process is documented within the context of sustainability reporting, which is to be developed in parallel.
4. The individual sustainability strategy takes effect, and begins to show results.

The benefits for you of a value-adding sustainability strategy

• It should be much easier in future to raise funds.
• Business models in crisis will increasingly in future have to allow themselves to be measured not only in terms of their economic success after restructuring, but by whether and to what extent they can fulfil ecological and social requirements.
• In the ever-increasing competition to attract talented employees, a sustainable orientation will increasingly represent a competitive advantage.

And as for us: Sustainability and
Struktur Management Partner

Constant availability, in combination with a lot of business travel. How sustainable can the consulting sector actually be? How can our everyday working life be reconciled with active climate protection? It is not as if we have only just started dealing with these questions today. More than twelve years ago, we started to find ways to counteract the harmful effects of the greenhouse gas emissions we cause. This also includes all Scope-3 emissions – i.e. indirect emissions that arise in our company’s value chain.

Your company’s own ecological footprint and active involvement in moorland bog protection

Year after year since 2009, SMP has supported the Succow Foundation, founded by Michael Succow, a pioneer of moorland bog research and protection, and winner of the alternative Nobel prize. And for good reason: Moorland bogs have been shown to be one of the largest and most effective carbon sinks of all terrestrial habitats. Despite their limited distribution area, they sequester one third of terrestrial carbon – twice as much as all the world’s forests put together. One demand of the Paris climate conference was therefore that moorland bogs must grow.