Implementing your CSR roadmap operationally
Integrating CSR into core processes and business lines to achieve successful sustainable transformation
Faced with the climate emergency, societal expectations, and economic instability, companies no longer have a choice: CSR must move from words to action.
However, many CSR initiatives remain theoretical, are poorly integrated into business processes, and struggle to generate tangible impacts in favor of socio-ecological transition and organizational resilience.
At Axys, we start from a simple observation: a CSR strategy is only valuable if it is integrated into everyday practices and business decisions. That is where ambition becomes reality.
Our approach to ensuring your CSR transformation is a success?
- Align your CSR roadmap with your business strategy,
- Mobilize your managers to embody responsible transformation,
- Equip your business teams so that they can become key players.
Our CSR convictions
Translate the ESG strategy into operational business processes
To generate measurable positive impacts, the ESG strategy must be fully embedded into processes and practices. By transforming your business activities and workflows, your contribution to the ecological and social transition becomes tangible and meaningful.
This ESG integration creates collective momentum where every employee understands their role and acts concretely to achieve common objectives. It is a powerful lever for responsible transformation, fostering sustainable innovation and strengthening your organization’s resilience to future challenges.
The Managerial Line: The Forgotten Engine of Responsible Transformation
According to a CEGOS study (2023), 66% of French employees believe their direct manager was not actively involved in ESG and needed support. Without engaged and equipped managers, ESG remains a theoretical ambition.
At Axys, we are convinced that manager involvement is essential to integrate ESG into daily practices and mobilize teams around responsible transformation. This way, ESG becomes a powerful lever for sustainable performance, responsible innovation, and organizational resilience.
Train and Equip Business Teams to Successfully Implement the Transition
Each function – Procurement, HR, Finance, Marketing – has specific levers to integrate ESG. Yet, only 7% of employees have been trained to operationalize ESG. Without proper skills and tools, ESG initiatives struggle to create concrete impact.
At Axys, we place training and equipping teams at the heart of our ESG support. Our goal: turn your commitments into operational actions so that every team and business expert becomes a key driver of your responsible transformation.
Our CSR supports
Assess the CSR maturity of business lines and define their contribution
We support you in developing an operational and sustainable CSR roadmap that maximizes the contribution of each function to your CSR strategy.
We follow a three-step approach:
- Measure the CSR maturity of your business lines according to your priority issues.
- Define a structured and sequenced action plan to strengthen the contribution of each business line.
- Select and train CSR ambassadors to promote the roadmap within teams and create collective momentum.
Our added value :
- CSR maturity diagnostic tool by business line, developed by our teams based on recognized standards.
Define and manage your
business CSR roadmap
We work with your departments (Purchasing, Finance, HR, IT, Marketing, etc.) to jointly develop CSR action plans for effective implementation.
To this end, we support you in:
- Co-construire avec vos équipes : comprendre les enjeux prioritaires et définir des solutions adaptées,
- Formaliser un plan d’actions : objectifs spécifiques en cohérence avec vos enjeux RSE et votre maturité métier,
- Piloter la feuille de route : mise en place d’un outil Dataviz pour un suivi optimisé,
Our added value :
- 35 ans d’expertise métier dans l’accompagnement des départements Achats, Finance, RH, IT, Marketing…
- Une connaissance approfondie des leviers RSE pour transformer durablement vos métiers selon votre maturité et vos besoins
Train your business representatives to implement changes within their teams
To successfully integrate CSR into your business lines, we offer targeted training for CSR representatives to ensure rollout within teams.
We help you to:
- Former les référents métiers : adaptées à chaque fonction et enjeux ESG clés avec des outils concrets
- Appropriation des bonnes pratiques : supports pédagogiques, guides et outils pour faciliter la mise en œuvre
- Co-construction entre pairs : diffuser les connaissances et renforcer la RSE dans les pratiques
Our added value :
- Axys est certifié Qualiopi, garantissant la qualité des processus mis en œuvre pour nos formations RSE
- Une approche collaborative et responsabilisante grâce à des référents formés et engagés relais internes de stratégie durable dans chaque fonction.
Define a Contribution for Each Department Based on Your Organizational Priorities
Using our ESG diagnostic tool, we assess the maturity of your departments based on your priority ESG issues. We connect high-level organizational challenges with practical operational solutions to turn ambitions into concrete actions.
Each department identifies its impact levers, sets measurable objectives, and develops a structured action plan over time to maximize its contribution to the ecological and social transition. Result: an organization where your teams become the drivers of your transformation.
A Concrete
and Actionable
ESG Roadmap
Through our collaborative approach and collective intelligence, we co-create with your teams an ESG roadmap for each department that is perfectly aligned with your company-wide ESG strategy and operational realities. This method ensures smooth integration of sustainability issues into core business processes.
Concretely, you gain a clear, pragmatic, and manageable roadmap that turns your ESG strategy into a lever for sustainable performance, responsible innovation, and organizational resilience.
Engaged Teams
Driving Responsible
Transformation
We ensure your teams are empowered and engaged, during and after our intervention, to create lasting collective momentum. At Axys, we turn your employees into key actors of your ESG strategy by training and equipping them to integrate responsibility at the heart of business practices.
Practically speaking? Business teams equipped and united around a single objective: steering your organization toward responsible transformation.
“It is no longer a question of pitting economic performance against CSR, but rather of reconciling the two. However, successfully achieving this transformation cannot be improvised.
Thanks to our dual expertise in business and CSR, we support each function in defining an action plan tailored to your operational realities in order to reveal the concrete levers that will redirect your organization.
The result? A mobilized organization, where each employee becomes an agent of change and each function a source of responsible innovation, ensuring an organization that is resilient to sustainable growth.”
Vincent MARTEGOUTTE Partner BU Purchases
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Frédérique WINCKEL
Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Sustainability
Vincent MARTEGOUTTE
Partner BU Purchases
Our support for Sustainable Transformation
Equip yourself and develop your responsible ecosystem :
To achieve successful sustainable transformation, it is not enough to have ambitions: you need reliable tools, expert partners, and digitalized processes to increase efficiency and positive impact.
Axys supports you in building a collaborative and sustainable ecosystem, where CSR becomes a driver of 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.
Engage and train your teams in CSR :
Qualiopi certified, we offer CSR training tailored to your level of maturity and strategic objectives.
From an introduction to CSR to advanced management and integration of CSR into business operations, we train your teams to transform your organization and strengthen your sustainable performance.
We answer your questions
How can CSR be integrated into core business activities and processes?
Integrating CSR involves translating strategic commitments into operational actions tailored to each function (Purchasing, Finance, HR, IT, Marketing, etc.). In concrete terms, integrating CSR into the core of business lines and processes means transforming practices so that they contribute directly to sustainability objectives. This begins with analyzing the environmental and social impacts specific to each activity in order to define clear priorities. CSR objectives must be translated into operational indicators and integrated into management tools, procedures, and performance criteria. Obviously, it is essential to provide operational training to teams and involve line managers to ensure ownership of the issues and consistency of actions.
In concrete terms? For Finance, this means including ESG criteria in investment decisions and non-financial reporting. For Purchasing, it means favoring responsible suppliers and sustainable materials, and incorporating CSR clauses into contracts. In Human Resources, CSR translates into employee training, the integration of sustainable objectives into performance reviews, and the promotion of diversity and quality of life at work.
What are the benefits of an operational CSR roadmap?
An operational CSR roadmap provides a clear and structured vision for achieving the objectives set out in the CSR strategy. It facilitates the prioritization of high-impact transformation actions, team alignment, and resource mobilization. By defining performance indicators and deadlines, it improves the management and transparency of commitments. This approach strengthens the positive contribution to ecological and social transition, improves resilience, and creates sustainable value for the company through responsible innovation. The key to such benefits? Integrating CSR into business processes, ensuring concrete and measurable results.
Why is the management line essential in CSR transformation?
The management line is a key lever for CSR transformation, as it enables strategic commitments to be translated into concrete actions on a daily basis.
Managers play a central role in mobilizing teams, integrating CSR issues into business practices, disseminating best practices, and steering sustainable performance.
Without strong commitment from management, CSR struggles to take root in the long term and produce measurable results.
How can business teams be trained in CSR?
Training business teams in CSR is based on a gradual and operational approach, tailored to each individual’s responsibilities and the organization’s priority issues.
The first step is to raise awareness of environmental and social issues in order to share a common understanding and give meaning to the process.
Targeted training courses then enable CSR principles to be linked to business practices, based on concrete cases and operational situations.
Finally, long-term support (workshops, e-learning, feedback) promotes ownership, team commitment, and the consolidation of skills.
What are the priority actions for reducing greenhouse gas emissions?
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions requires a structured approach that is prioritized and aligned with the company’s strategy.
To begin with, we support our clients in measuring and analyzing their emissions in order to identify the most relevant levers, particularly within their value chain, where the main impacts are often concentrated.
Our support then enables you to define a realistic and operational decarbonization pathway, combining energy efficiency, changing practices, transforming products and services, and mobilizing teams.
The goal is to translate climate ambitions into concrete action plans that are compatible with operational, regulatory, and economic constraints and create sustainable value for the company.