“Since we’ve started this journey, I am seeing small improvements and exciting shifts on an almost weekly basis.” Celeste van Tonder, Sustainability Lead, Pepkor Group

Sustainability integration is a long term, cross-functional initiative. If done badly, it runs the risk of destabilising the organisation before it fails. If done effectively, it is transformative. This cannot be done in five easy steps. Several of our clients learnt that the hard way, before they found us.

We have honed sustainability integration to five areas of action, all of which are undertaken by your organisation anyway. This is reflected in our 5A framework which you can find here. Use the framework to run a quick assessment: Where are you succeeding most? Where are you finding barriers to progress? How do you coordinate the effect in a way that helps build the brand?

We partner with your internal lead or team to make integration simpler, more conscious and effective. It might be a challenging prospect but sustainability practitioners have worked long and hard for decades to make it easier.

Email Nicola at nicola@incite.co.za.

“Putting Shared Value into practice helped TFG boost speed-to-market and capacity, while creating jobs in a rural area and the economy as a whole.” Graham Choice | Head of Design, Manufacturing and Prestige Clothing at TFG

Your company has a unique pathway to scaling its positive social and environmental impact. We’ll work with you to find it and make it happen. Along the way, we will help you grow your resilience too. It won’t be overnight. But we can help you make it more likely and more cost effective.

We start by focussing the opportunity space using pattern analytics. We ideate by analysing the need and by drawing on diverse perspectives. Once we have narrowed the options, we test possibilities using safe-to-fail methods. We amplify what works; we learn from failures.

This is not the orthodox approach of the big consultancies. We will never tell you to take big risks for big rewards. When things are complex, we take small steps forward until we have found a way to manage the uncertainty. If you want to innovate, we will work with you to find a better pathway to scale.

Email us to discuss your needs.

To account to stakeholders, organisations report their progress and prospects.  Effective reporting bridges the gap between disclosure and communication. We’ve been helping our clients do this for more than two decades.

As disclosure expectations are standardised, this is becoming easier although it is always time consuming and subject to continual improvement.

• In 2020, our team assisted in structuring and writing the Integrated and/or Sustainability Reports for five of the Top 10 in the EY Integrated Reporting Awards (Kumba, Vodacom, Implats, Oceana, Anglo American Platinum). We’ve never repeated that feat, but then we only do a few reports a year!
• In 2021, we were engaged by the JSE to develop their Sustainability / ESG Disclosure Guidance.
• We have actively supported developments in local and international integrated reporting guidance since 2010.

We still draft a few Integrated and Sustainability/ESG Reports every year, but we focus on reporting and disclosure support. We facilitate highly effective materiality processes and stakeholder engagements . We do gap analyses against recognised disclosure standards and frameworks, including the the IFRS International Sustainability Standards Board S1 and S2 standards, the JSE’s Sustainability Disclosure Guidance and ESG raters. We share our experience to help your reporting team hone their process and product.

Contact Jonathon at jon@incite.co.za to discuss your needs.