Change management: indispensable for change

Becoming more sustainable requires more than formulating ambitions. Organizations today face complex challenges: stricter laws and regulations, financial opportunities and risks, increasing pressure from the chain, changing expectations of customers and employees and the need to secure sustainability data reliably and consistently. As a result, parts or entire business strategies are transforming and processes will have to change in the near future.

What are the benefits?

Effective change management at the enterprise level helps organizations:

Customer focus: Meeting the dynamic changes in customer and consumer demands, needs, tastes and preferences
Sustainable anticipation: Responding to developments around climate change, the availability of resources and raw materials, and geopolitical and societal changes
Leadership and talent: Fostering collaborative leadership to retain a talented, knowledgeable, and results-driven workforce
Improve performance: Maintain and strengthen financial and non-financial performance

Our approach

We see change management as the interplay of actions that are necessary to implement your sustainability strategy, regardless of whether this change is driven by mandatory regulations, (inter)national objectives, customer requests or your own initiative as an organization.

Governance and culture form the foundation. We help organizations to clearly define roles and responsibilities, develop policies and procedures and integrate sustainable activities into existing business processes and systems. This goes hand in hand with setting up robust monitoring and reporting structures, so that you comply with current laws and regulations and keep a grip on the progress of your ambitions.

It is just as important that employees start to see the usefulness and necessity of the change. At Forvis Mazars, we believe that for successful and sustainable change, these efforts must be balanced with the organizational culture. This includes certain leadership from management, developing driven teams and increasing employee engagement and ownership at all levels. By promoting cooperation between departments, we ensure that sustainability does not remain a separate theme. It must become part of daily practice for all employees.

In addition to an independent change process that often focuses on the 'soft' side of the organization, we ensure that elements of change management are embedded in our regular services. In doing so, we encourage broad employee involvement, facilitate training elements that provide insight and broaden the view for change, and ensure that employees become enthusiastic and take responsibility. By designing change in this way, we help you create long-term value for your business and your stakeholders.