Embracing change and shaping the future:

Sustainable value creation

Needs a long-term vision considering impacts of current business actions and decisions on the future.

Entails minimizing environmental impact by e.g. preserving resources reducing pollution and mitigating climate change.

Promotes social equity, diversity, and inclusion. 

Considers long-term profitability and resilience. Business actions go beyond short-term business profits.

Fosters innovation to develop business models that meet current needs without jeopardizing a healthy and sustainable future. 

Provides transparency in operations, supportive processes and decision-making and accountability for the impacts of business actions on society and the ecosystem/environment.

Collaborates and Co-creates with stakeholders of different backgrounds across various sectors (e.g. of the value chains) to address shared challenges and create mutual value.

Design thinking

Encourages flexibility and adaptability in responding to changing circumstances and unpredictable context.
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Prioritizes a human-centric and empathetic approach, i.e. understanding the needs, behaviors and emotions of users and other stakeholders affected by a challenge or related solution.

Promotes an iterative and agile approach allowing teams to experiment and prototype. It invites teams to pause, reflect and learn from experiences and inevitable setbacks and refine solutions in an agile manner.

Fosters collaboration across diverse teams to boost creativity, innovation and resilience in disruptive times. Diverse perspectives due to different skills and experiences help to navigate complex challenges.

Encourages systems thinking, i.e. holistic observations where the interconnectedness of various aspects -related to the challenge and potential solutions- and their impact on the ecosystem are identified, potential domino effects anticipated and more robust and sustainable solutions designed.

Leading from the emerging future

Entails a vision that is rooted in a deep understanding of emerging trends, opportunities and challenges.
 
Is purpose-driven, i.e. grounded in values, ethics, and incorporates a commitment to sustainable and responsible value creation..

Fosters a culture of innovation and adaptation by embracing change and creating space for creativity, new opportunities, challenging assumptions, encouraging risk-taking, supporting experimentation with new ideas, technologies, and business models.

Encourages systems thinking, i.e. holistic observations considering the interconnectedness of various aspects of the ecosystem to identify leverage knots, anticipate potential domino effects/implications of business actions and factor them in the decision-making.

Cultivates empathy for diverse needs, challenges and perspectives of not only users but all stakeholders and fosters a collaborative culture characterized by participation, co-creation, and shared ownership of the future direction and provides for resilience and adaptability to navigate inevitable setbacks when embracing change by e.g. building capacity for continuous learning and providing expertise and resources to help employees and teams overcome adversities of BANI times.