Equip your executive team for tomorrow’s challenges :
CSR: a strategic asset for your executive team
In a world facing multiple crises, marked by geopolitical tensions, vulnerable supply chains, and social and environmental crises that are reshaping the rules, ensuring the sustainability of one’s business is a daily challenge.
To succeed, we must reinvent our models and adapt to the world ahead. Making CSR a strategic tool in the hands of your executive committee means preparing for the future in order to ensure the long-term viability of your business and accelerate the ecological and social transition.
At Axys, a sustainable transformation consulting firm, we help companies create a spark within their executive committees to turn them into enlightened drivers of your responsible transition.
Our approach:
- Strategic diagnosis: Assess your CSR maturity level and identify risks and opportunities across the entire value chain.
- Collective intelligence: A feedback day with your executive committee to spark change and initiate sustainable transformation.
Our CSR convictions
La RSE au service de votre résilience et performance globale
En tant que cabinet expert en transformation durable, nous sommes convaincus que la RSE est un atout stratégique pour assurer la performance globale et la pérennité.
Intégrer la RSE à votre stratégie vous permet d’anticiper les vulnérabilités, identifier les opportunités et en faire un levier d’innovation responsable.
Les entreprises qui placent la durabilité au cœur de leur modèle affichent en moyenne +13 % de rentabilité et réduisent leurs risques opérationnels jusqu’à 30 % (France Stratégie, EcoVadis).
Anticiper les vulnérabilités sur toute votre chaîne de valeur
Dans un contexte de tensions géopolitiques, de crises climatiques et d’exigences réglementaires accrues, la chaîne de valeur est devenue un point critique pour la résilience des entreprises.
Près de 80 % des organisations ont subi des perturbations majeures de leur supply chain, liées à des défaillances de tiers et des risques ESG (EcoVadis).
Intégrer la RSE dans la gestion de votre chaîne de valeur permet de transformer les vulnérabilités en forces durables au service de votre performance globale.
Engager son CODIR, une condition essentielle pour la RSE
Le CODIR doit être le moteur stratégique de la transformation responsable car cette mutation exige une vision long terme, car toute transformation profonde s’inscrit sur 5 à 20 ans.
Sans cet engagement, la RSE reste une série d’initiatives isolées, qui ne peut être au service de la pérennité de votre business model et source de contribution positive.
Pour réussir, une condition essentielle : un comité de direction outillé pour comprendre les enjeux du monde de demain, conscient des risques et opportunités.
Our CSR supports
Analyze your business model
and your organization
We organize strategic workshops with your key management teams to conduct an in-depth analysis of your business model, your organization, your corporate culture, as well as your challenges, constraints, ambitions, and your vision of CSR.
During this essential step, our CSR experts ensure that they understand your organizational specifics in order to offer concrete and relevant recommendations during the customized CSR assessment.
Our added value :
- Our CSR teams have cross-functional expertise, enabling them to understand the specific realities of each department and develop relevant and effective CSR solutions.
Assess your organizational
CSR maturity
Together with your teams, we assess your organization’s CSR maturity: ESG performance, governance, deployment, skills, market positioning, and ecosystem.
At the end of the process, we deliver a personalized CSR assessment, which serves as a strategic foundation for concrete and actionable recommendations.
Our added value :
- A reliable and rapid CSR maturity assessment, based on the AFNOR tool, to evaluate your ESG performance and structure.
- Other tools may be offered to you depending on the needs identified and your positioning in your market.
Project your executive committee during
an immersive day
We organize an immersive day with your executive committee, punctuated by interactive workshops combining factual data, emotions, and action.
Our goal? To project your organization into tomorrow’s world, revealing strengths, vulnerabilities, risks, and opportunities.
This experience creates a collective awareness of CSR issues and the path ahead.
Our added value :
- A practical, personalized day to identify your opportunities, strengths, vulnerabilities, and risks in your value chain.
- A collaborative workshop designed by Axys to anticipate the challenges of a world in crisis and co-create sustainable solutions.
A clearer understanding of your organization’s risks and opportunities to gain competitiveness
We analyze your business challenges in relation to environmental and social impacts across your value chain.
Goal: simplify complexity to turn it into a strategic lever.
Practically, you stay one step ahead, secure your operations, and identify opportunities to create sustainable value.
A day to spark awareness and build a collective consciousness
around current and future challenges
Through interactive workshops and strategic simulations, your executive committee explores building a responsible organization and learns how to manage CSR in a polycrisis context.
This one-day seminar transforms the perception of CSR: it allows moving from awareness to action, to sustainably engage your company.
An executive committee ready to steer its company strategy for the long term in a rapidly changing world
By combining our approaches, we equip your Executive Committee with the tools to understand the new factors influencing your organization’s performance and sustainability.
Goal: lay the foundations for a resilient, value-creating trajectory, with an engaged executive committee driving responsible transformation.
“The management team has everything it needs to ensure the sustainability and resilience of its business in the face of the multiple crises it is already experiencing.
This moment of realization among the executives we support is essential in order to confront the reality of climate change and planetary boundaries while integrating the short-, medium-, and long-term impacts on their business.
This day is designed to guide members of the Executive Committee through all the phases necessary to assimilate the information and set their organization in motion, starting with themselves.”
Hélène METRAS, Sustainable Transformation Director at Axys
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Frédérique WINCKEL
Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Sustainability
Hélène METRAS
Change Management Director chez Axys
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Our experts will work with you to develop a tailor-made project that meets your challenges.
Our Sustainable Transformation supports
Define your double materiality assessment and your strategy :
We support companies in identifying ESG impacts across the entire value chain.
The goal? To prioritize your CSR issues, identify your purpose, and jointly develop a CSR strategy capable of responding to challenges, seizing opportunities, and building a responsible and successful business.
Structure your
CSR function :
We put our expertise in organizational transformation at the service of your CSR function.
The goal? Master key topics, steer your strategy, and activate your ecosystem to make your CSR function a lever for a resilient and innovative organization committed to responsible transformation.
Implementing your CSR roadmap operationally :
We support you in aligning your CSR roadmap with your business strategy, mobilizing your managers, and equipping your business teams.
Our approach? To ensure that your operational teams become key players in the sustainable transition and contribute to responsible and innovative performance.
Shift your functions toward sustainability :
With Axys, a sustainable transformation consulting firm, turn your business lines into driving forces behind your CSR strategy.
The goal? To support the transformation of your Purchasing, HR, Finance, and CSR departments to strengthen sustainable performance and accelerate the transition to responsible business practices.
We answer your questions
Why is it important to involve the Executive Committee in the CSR process?
Involving the Executive Committee in the CSR process is essential to ensure that it is integrated into the heart of the company’s strategy. When governance is committed, CSR becomes a lever for performance rather than an isolated action. A committed and proactive Executive Committee ensures consistency between economic objectives and social and environmental issues, facilitates decision-making, and mobilizes the necessary resources.
Its involvement strengthens the credibility of the approach among stakeholders, promotes team buy-in, and makes it possible to anticipate regulatory, operational, and reputational risks. By placing CSR at the strategic level, the company gives itself the means to create sustainable value, secure competitiveness, anticipate physical or transition risks, and ultimately innovate to ensure the sustainability of its business model.
How can you get your executive committee on board with the ecological and social transition?
Today, despite their best intentions, many company executives find themselves jumping from one operational emergency to another, unable to plan for the long term. What’s more, CSR is often perceived as disconnected from strategic issues, a cost center that does not contribute to the company’s overall performance.
To engage and gain the support of senior management, there is no choice but to create a collective shift in thinking to reorient priorities. ESG risk assessments and mapping, as well as immersive formats such as serious games, interactive workshops, and strategic simulations, are particularly effective in making the issues concrete and encouraging senior management to get on board.
How can CSR be integrated into strategic decisions without compromising economic performance?
Often perceived as contradictory, CSR is nevertheless a strategic ally for economic performance that is unmatched and yet ignored… Integrating CSR into strategy does not mean sacrificing performance, but rather strengthening it. It is a lever for competitiveness and resilience, not an additional cost.
To achieve this, it is necessary to respect key principles:
1) Use double materiality to prioritize issues and identify risks and opportunities.
2) Integrate CSR into decision-making processes.
3) Align CSR with business objectives to innovate, strengthen performance, and reduce your impact. Discover our articles on the subject: [GPO Mag] Defining an ambitious CSR strategy: the solution to ensuring the survival and performance of the French economy? – Axys
What are the advantages for a company to engage in CSR?
CSR offers strategic and operational benefits that strengthen competitiveness while reducing negative impacts on the environment and people. It reduces costs through better resource management, improves team well-being and collaboration, and promotes productivity and innovation. It is also an approach that strengthens customer and partner confidence.
It also helps anticipate regulations, limit legal and reputational risks, and facilitate access to financing through ESG compliance. Finally, it increases the company’s resilience to economic, social, or environmental crises by embedding performance in a sustainable approach that anticipates risks across the entire value chain.