Assessments

BES works with clients to identify a desired future state and defines and reconciles their actual and perceived present states. An assessment scope can include an “snapshot in time” of the client, peers, industry, public sector in terms of local, state, federal, and international legislation and regulation, voluntary programs and governing bodies, relevant non-governmental organizations, technology, and relevant aspects of society. BES will also assess the client’s aptitude and capacity for change and the rate of change occurring externally.

Analytics

At BES we believe in making informed decisions. To do that, our clients need access to a wide range of data gathering tools and top analysts. We offer ethnographic assessment, lifecycle inventory and assessment, business process analysis, Six-Sigma, and financial analysis and business case development.

We provide our clients with real estate analytics focused on cost reduction, portfolio optimization, and healthy and responsible building assessment. We also offer building assessments using Green Globes, BREEAM, LEED, Living Building Challenge, Whole Building Design Guide, environmental footprinting, and resource auditing such as energy and water.

BES provides its clients with intelligence and trend analysis in the areas of local, state, federal, and international legislation and regulations, governing bodies, voluntary programs, technology, finance, and society.

Understanding who are your stakeholders and what they want is critical to providing a measured and surgical response. BES will perform stakeholder assessments, model assessment data, and create a stakeholder engagement strategy.

ES works with our clients to interpret the data provided from an assessment to determine materiality, generate options, create strategic roadmaps, and define maturity and change curves.

Continuous Improvement

BES partners with clients to identify and map initiatives, programs, and projects to their business goals and objectives. We will optimize outcomes and value by sequencing and bundling then assist the client in design, Implementation, assessment, and optimization of the selected initiatives, programs, and projects. BES assists clients in identifying and aligning key performance indicators, metrics, and targets with corporate goals and objectives. We will work with clients to integrate these indicators, metrics, and targets into their existing performance management system.

Building Capacity

BES believes in building capacity and not dependence. As such, BES integrates with a client’s team to help them develop the knowledge and experience needed to realize their desired future state. BES also believes that growing client innovation and productivity is core to their success. We view unmanaged change as an inhibitor to innovation, productivity, and cultural growth. We assist our client’s in accelerating the speed of change so that new processes, policy, procedures, and tools can be rapidly assimilated into their cultures as business-as-usual practices.

Another key aspect of building capacity is learning. At BES we have accelerated learning process by replacing traditional methods with an immersive approach that combines the acquisition of knowledge and experience. Our immersive learning platform can be delivered through classroom, online, and virtual environments. The latter two channels means less cost, employee downtime, and 24/7 access to content.

Our most popular classes and workshops include: Greenhouse Gas Management, Greenhouse Gas Quantifier Certification Preparation, Greenhouse Gas Verifier Certification Preparation, Sustainable Social Responsibility Strategies, Resource Reduction, Materiality, People-centric program management, Change Management, and Sustainable Value Chains.

BES also offer customized learning content designed to meet the specific needs of our client.

Reporting

Whether you are initiating sustainable social responsibility or looking to move it to the next level, stakeholder engagement and reporting are critical. at some point, now or in the future, a company will want or need to report the results to interested stakeholders.

BES helps clients develop and integrate goals, define key performance indicators and metrics, create protocols, measure progress, and document results in compliance with stakeholder reporting requirements. We do this by leveraging our client’s existing performance management and reporting systems. This approach save time, money, minimizes education and training, and employs creditable systems and tools while requiring significantly less effort to embed these changes as business-as-usual practices.

Sustainable Business Strategies

BES assists our clients in defining their desired future state, assesses and reconciles their actual and perceived present states, calibrates their present and future states in the context of their industry and competitors, creates strategic roadmaps, and develops recommendations for continuous improvement. The result is a sustainable socially responsible solution that amplifies business results in a financially sensitive manner.

Greenhouse Gas Management

At BES we believe the best way to reduce greenhouse gases (GHG) requires a clear connection to financial performance.

We believe a well-designed and managed greenhouse gas reduction initiative should manage risk, enhance brand, and most of all, produce cost savings and operational efficiency.

To achieve these benefits, BES takes a tiered approach focusing on conservation followed by efficiency in order to maximized your return while minimizing your investment and giving clients a springboard for collateral opportunities.

Improvements must be meaningful, validated, and clearly communicated. This means that reductions need to be clearly linked to the performance indicators that matter most to each client. BES helps clients navigate the complexities by establishing baseline inventories, assessing enablers and inhibitors, identifying cost-effective GHG reduction opportunities that generate cost savings, and communicating benefits to stakeholders.

Resource Reduction Strategies

BES assists clients in developing assessments of their environmental impact and related costs. The resulting data is converted into metrics - energy & emissions, water & effluent, materials and waste, and land-use and biodiversity - that align business objectives. Working closely with our clients we identify “hot spots” and develop recommendations, strategies, and plans that reduce their costs, improve innovation and productivity, and reduce their environmental footprint. Our intra- and inter-system approach captures hidden and collateral opportunities and generates strategic roadmaps for continuous improvement.

Sustainable Value Chains

Social impact and conservation and more efficient use of materials requires more than an upstream focus on the supply chain. In today's world of increasingly thin margins and extended responsibility there is a need to also have a downstream focus. BES helps clients assess the impact of their products and services across their lifecycle identifying “hot spots” across a range of variable the address financial performance and social and environmental impacts. We work with our clients to build strategic roadmaps that are sensitive to business objectives and support stakeholder needs.

Voluntary Program & Regulatory Compliance and Implemenation

BES develops and implements strategies to ensure operations comply with both current and future legislation, regulation, and voluntary programs with a focus on enabling business performance.

Voluntary Program, Regulatory, & Rule Monitoring

BES maintains close contact with relevant agencies, governing bodies, industry groups, and NGOs to track developments. This “early warning system” provides our clients with the situational awareness of any changes in mandatory and voluntary programs so they can fully participate in any policymaking.

New Policy Development

When clients face a challenge that requires fundamental policy change, BES engages legislators and their staff to explain the various choices, their impacts, and offer options.

Coalition Building

BES has extensive experience convening a variety of stakeholders to find common ground and achieve positive outcomes.

Stakeholder Engagement & Change Management

Working with client staff, Business EcoSystems helps clients manage change by developing and implementing change management strategies to internal and external stakeholders. This includes analytics, developing communications strategies and materials, designing and coordinating events, and developing and monitoring key performance indicators.

We will identify, map, and engage stakeholders building awareness, knowledge, and understanding in an effort to create constructive dialog, synergistic relationships, and beneficial solutions.

Negotiations

Business EcoSystems partners with our clients to design, negotiate, and carry out innovative, long-term solutions that satisfy the client, regulators, and other stakeholders.

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