For many years, we at FACT Consulting have been supporting companies in their strategy work, advising them on the subject of leadership and supporting them in process design. Excellent companies thus manage to implement clear strategic priorities through consistently acting executives with committed employees in clear processes.
Currently, the big swing towards a sustainable economy is taking place. In accordance with the European Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD for short - the new EU directive on CSR reporting), it is important to base your own corporate success story in the direction of sustainability on the following three aspects: - Environment - Social - Governance
In my role as an EFQM expert, I work on issues related to the further development of management systems in various contexts. For many years now, the trend has been toward integrated management systems that cover not only quality but also environmental, (occupational) safety and IT security. The underlying ISO standards follow the guideline for the development and revision of standards, which is classically based on the PDCA cycle.
"New Work" is a buzzword that is not so new anymore, but has come to stay - and to retire the previous system "work". After two years of the pandemic at the latest, a large part of our society has arrived in the global-digital age, which has completely new demands on our jobs, employers and their image. But what does New Work actually mean?
The EU Taxonomy Regulation published in June 2020 clearly aims to make capital flows in the EU sustainable and thus move the entire economy towards sustainability. This has a massive impact on strategy work in different industries and company sizes. Six environmental goals address specific dimensions.
We are all challenged, times are demanding and constantly bring new challenges. You can reward yourself and your team once in a while and do something good for yourself. All the better if this also advances the organization as a whole. That's exactly what we offer with our interactive online webinar "Self-Management". In four varied hours we set impulses for self-reflection and common exchange.
Who does not know them. The motivational story of the jar with the pebbles, the sand and the water. The large stones are filled into the jar until it is full. Following this, it is asked whether the glass is now full. Yes it is. Now small pebbles are added. Is the glass full now? Yes, isn't it? Stop. There's still something to do...
The turbulent times have made quite a stir in our daily professional life. Some things didn't work anymore, some things had to be rearranged and some new things came up. Especially in the area of online collaboration many innovations have been established in a very short time.
Environmental protection, sustainability and resource conservation is THE topic, also in global politics. That change is urgently needed to counteract the effects of climate change is beyond question and simply concerns us all. Our common goal must be the protection of the environment, especially with regard to our posterity, the reduction of emissions and the production of less waste.
Whether an organization achieves a successful digital transformation depends first and foremost not only on the technologies it deploys for this purpose. Another key factor for success is whether the organization has provided its digital transformation with a clear vision of the future that it has developed for itself. Only with a clear "alignment" of the organization for the future and with clarity and consistency in processes and data can digitization unfold its full benefits as a "means to an end".
