Sustainable development requires more than technical solutions or a “greener” outlook.
Widening responsibility to include ecological, social and individual concerns makes planning and deciding more complex. The ISIS approach helps you navigate through the complexity, step by step.

ISIS stands for Indicators, Systems, Innovation and Strategy:

1. Indicators
Indicators are the gateway to understanding. Finding the right indicators, and analyzing them accurately, requires profound observation and reflection on possible areas of influence.
2. Systems
Indicators lead to the investigation and discovery of systemic interdependencies, together with points of leverage for boosting effectiveness and accelerating change.
3. Innovation
Acting successfully in a sustainability change process requires the ability to “step out of the box” and come up with genuinely new ideas to apply at the identified points of leverage.
4. Strategy
Realizing the potential of innovative ideas requires thorough planning, a clear adoption and diffusion strategy, and the ability to adapt quickly and decisively to changing circumstances.

Sustainability Change Agents need to have a profile that includes:

• Profound knowledge of a specific field of expertise related to sustainability
• Deep understanding of human change – organisational and individual
• Broad skillset for planning and running a complex change process
• Clear understanding how to handle multi-stakeholder interests
• Grounded, present and convincing personal style to successfully engage others

Three kinds of change need to be managed at the same time:

1. Technical change
The actual content of what must be transformed
2. Organisational change
The social context within which technical change occurs
3. Individual change
The habits, mindsets, and goals of the people involved

The ISIS Method can help you master relevant technical information and coordinate technical experts in situations when it is not possible to become a technical expert yourself. ISIS‘s greatest benefit is successful navigation through the turbulence of organisational, cultural and individual change process — all of which are necessary for reaching the given sustainability targets.

Our unique combination of tools, experience, and content expertise is ideally suited to helping participants to develop the additional skills and attributes they need to effectively initiate, motivate, and lead sustainability change efforts – and to sustain the process of change itself.