We need to change if we want to leave a habitable planet to future generations. The world of work needs new approaches, new goals and new processes if this transition is to succeed. This is what Impact Business Design is all about: creating grandchildren-proof (enkelfähig) organizations and thus securing the future of the planet. No more, but also no less.
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What is Impact Business Design?
Our world is threatening to tip over. We have almost reached the tipping point, after which we will no longer be able to avert the negative spiral. Now is the time to transform our systems sustainably – and improve them.
Impact Business Design is intended to accompany companies on their way to becoming an sustainable and yet grandchildren-proof organization. It is a method that can make almost any company fit for the future.
In the process, future-oriented business models, products and services are identified, validated, developed and scaled. In order to actually understand and check whether an impact business idea is really sustainable, an impact matrix is used.
The impact matrix
The effect staircase is divided into a total of seven steps, which are divided into three areas:
Level one to three: Output
Activities take place
Target groups are reached
Target groups accept offers
Levels four to six: Outcome
Target group changes knowledge and awareness
The actions of the target group are changing
The target group’s life situation is changing
Step seven: Impact
Society is changing
Every company can assess which stage it is currently at and then act accordingly. The goal: products that make a long-term contribution to the solution – and are not part of the problem.
From profit first to impact first: What is an impact business?
Impact businesses are business models that are geared towards the long term and have a positive impact on the economy, society and the environment. Instead of maximizing profit (profit first), such companies are designed to have a positive impact (impact first).
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations serve as target orientation. They cover a wide range of areas:
No poverty
No hunger
Health
Education
Gender equality
Clean water and sanitation
Affordable and clean energy
Decent work and economic growth
Industry, innovation and infrastructure
Fewer inequalities
Sustainable cities and communities
Sustainable consumption and production
Climate protection
Life under water
Life on land
Peace, justice and strong institutions
Partnerships
The features of the Impact Business design
Impact Business Design is characterized by five properties, all of which reinforce each other:
Future viability: It ensures further development from the future and involves all relevant stakeholders in the development and implementation.
Leverage effect: It accelerates the shift towards an endowment capability that responsibly shapes your organization’s impact on the ecosphere.
Empowerment: It motivates people for transformation and inspires them for an Impact First corporate culture.
Adaptivity: It offers individually usable modules that can be flexibly adapted to the maturity level or awareness of your organization.
Circularity: It enables you and your company to think, feel and act systemically and holistically.
The phases of the impact business design
Impact Business Design is a systemic-integral organizational model in 13 steps and consists of three superordinate phases:
Transparency: Why and why is change needed? What should the scope of the change be? Drive patterns and motives of an organization are worked out.
Transcendence: The step into the unknown, measures are taken, prioritized and implemented.
Immanence: The new standard is consolidated, processes are automated. The result: more efficiency immediately.
Before and after this, there is also check-in and check-out.
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triangility x Stephan Grabmeier: The Impact Business Design Workshop
In our joint workshop with Stephan Grabmeier, you can benefit from the holistic approach of our trainers. You will learn methods and tools for immediate implementation that will change the way your company thinks and acts in the long term.
Start your strategically sustainable organizational development with Impact Design.
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