Our services

Tailor-made solutions to fulfil your business goals

We bring clarity to complex matters by providing practical solutions that turn strategies into results.

Thinking beyond and ahead of your needs, we develop and implement solutions that help you overcome your challenges.

How we can guide you

Sustainability requirements are increasingly complex. The call for continuous innovation is relentless. And the rising demand of stakeholders for you to rapidly adapt to change is nothing new. Today’s dynamic business environment poses various challenges to companies in every sector.

Uncertain about what you need to make sure your business is future-ready? Taking a holistic, flexible, and adaptable approach tailored to your project needs, we build a multidisciplinary team equipped with the right expertise to bring new perspectives and inspire meaningful ideas to accelerate sustainable value.

Draw on our diverse service portfolio covering marketing and communications, agile project management, new business development, organizational change, stewardship as well as stakeholder strategies.

Sustainability Strategy & Implementation

Product Responsibility & Safety

Marketing & Communications

Strategic Partnership & Public Affairs

Business Development & Innovation Management

Agile Facilitation & Digital Transformation

Sustainability Strategy & Implementation

Tailored sustainability strategies for your business

Transparency and authenticity are key factors in driving sustainable business. A purpose-driven business model ensures your team is engaged and provides credible arguments for investors.

We offer a holistic approach including upskilling programs, sustainable business model development, regulatory compliance assistance and ESG rating management.

Tailored to your needs, our comprehensive solutions support you in any stage of transforming “business as usual” to sustainable success.

SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY & IMPLEMENTATION

EcoVadis Rating Management Services

ESG ratings are a key factor in attracting investor interest and meeting stakeholders requirements. A strong EcoVadis rating unlocks new opportunities.

We offer tailored support for your EcoVadis rating: A Kickstart & Strategy module to get you started on the right track, Hands-On Guidance for optimizing key areas with collaborative help, and Full-Cycle Support for end-to-end management, freeing your resources, including document reviews and submission.

How we can help you

Sustainability Impact Assessments (SIA)

Know exactly how and where you have potential and need to improve your company’s sustainability profile. Obtain insights you can act upon through our science-based sustainability impact assessments (SIA).

Our thorough analyses of product life cycles and corporate value chains, and double materiality assessments to identify critical impacts and risks provide a solid foundation for strategic development, sustainability reporting, and progress tracking.

Carbon Accounting & Target Setting

Science-Based Targets (SBTs) help companies move from ambition to action. We help you align your climate goals with the global SBTi standard. From carbon accounting to target setting and implementation, we make your progress measurable, credible, and ready for stakeholder scrutiny.

How we can help you

Regulatory Compliance Assistance

Regulations are essential. But not always the easiest to navigate. We simplify the complexities of sustainability and ESG regulatory compliance, supporting in reporting, product claims, and supply chain due diligence directives.

Our comprehensive approach focuses on the measurement and management of the triple bottom line, addressing key environmental impacts like carbon and water footprints, handprints, as well as biodiversity and social impacts.

Sustainability Business Case Development

Why would ESG-driven investors want to do business with you? It’s a serious question. A purpose-driven organization with sustainability as a key driver provides authentic arguments to stakeholders and investors. That’s a good rationale for you to upscale your sustainability initiatives.

We co-create sustainable business models that help companies transform the daily business grind to seamlessly integrate sustainability into your core operations.

Sustainability Demonstration Concepts & Platforms

If you’re all about sustainable business growth, then you need to let your investors and stakeholders know about it.

How? By effectively demonstrating the value of your sustainability initiatives with innovative demonstration concepts and platforms.

We enhance stakeholder engagement by showcasing the tangible benefits of your efforts, illustrating the practical value and impact of your sustainability projects.

Upskill Teams on Sustainability

You can only get your team on board with sustainability if they fully understand the scope of possibility, expectations, and potential.

Grow your team’s expertise with our comprehensive sustainability upskilling and training programs.

You get customized training materials, industry-specific content, and training programs tailored to your organizational needs – effective, engaging, and aligned with your strategic goals.

Supply Chain Sustainability Guidance

Customers want to know that your sustainability business efforts permeate throughout your business. Maintain transparency and accountability across your supply chain sustainability and proactively answer evolving customer demands.

We assist you to establish SBTi science-based targets and comply with sustainability certifications such as Ecovadis or general sustainability management system standards like ISO 14001, ISO 26000, ZNU etc

Product Responsibility & Safety

Streamlined solutions for regulatory compliance and digital transformation

As the market evolves and the regulatory landscape becomes increasingly complex, a clear understanding of requirements is crucial to ensure compliance and set up the right processes.

Companies need to proactively identify risks to stay ahead of regulatory requirements. That’s where we come in. We’ll help with the risk assessment and guide on developing comprehensive product responsibility programs and internal procedures – leveraging lean IT tools to simplify the process and automate wherever possible.

Tailored Product Responsibility Programs

Meet compliance requirements and stay proactive: Tailored assessments of your current product responsibility program help to identify the right steps to fulfil specific industry needs.

We conduct portfolio screening to detect regulated substances (e.g., through Stockholm convention – POP, PFAS regulations or REACH) and identify related risks and mitigation measures.

Together, we co-create and scale-up robust risk mitigation strategies considering health, safety, environmental and quality aspects, ensuring seamless implementation across departments and teams.

Lean IT Tools & Process Automation

Navigating numerous digitalization options can be daunting. Let us simplify the process through our comprehensive suite of end-to-end services.

We evaluate current processes, utilizing the capabilities of the MS Power Platform suite to seamlessly integrate digital solutions.

You can rely on our agile project management framework to ensure a smooth transition – from start to finish. And when it gets more complex? Our scrum-certified team serves as the bridge between business and IT.

Product Compliance Processes & Procedures

The regulatory landscape is ever evolving. Our customized solutions ensure product compliance by developing and integrating processes within your company’s guidelines, drawing from our extensive regulatory knowledge (e.g., REACH, CLP or TSCA).

We facilitate procedural development by supporting you to establish clear roles and responsibilities and creating specific processes from product traceability to quality assurance. With comprehensive training and onboarding for stakeholders, we ensure seamless implementation and integration.

Marketing & Communications

Marketing and communication solutions that inspire and engage your audience

Reaching the right audience with the right tools at the right time and place is essential to informing, inspiring, and engaging your stakeholders.

To ensure your message resonates and your marketing goals are met, we collaborate closely with you to develop 360° strategies and concepts tailored to your target groups.

Brand Management

A strong brand identity, authentic messages and market presence is key to retaining customer loyalty and long-term business success.

We co-develop and refresh brands by defining a powerful value proposition and clear positioning. To attract and retain your customers, we manage brands and portfolios and create strategic marketing concepts for relevant channels while monitoring and optimizing their performance.

Sustainable Marketing

Customers, ESG product claims and credibility…While sustainability is increasingly influencing customer and investor decisions, the risk of greenwashing is high.

We guide you towards embedding sustainability in the core of your corporate value proposition. Engage employees and leadership to develop genuine, authentic and transparent marketing strategies and convey to customers that they can trust in your company’s sustainability efforts.

Change Communication

You know how uncertain you feel when you don’t understand why change is happening? Now scale that feeling up to all employees throughout your organization. Maybe also to investors, partners or other collaborators.

We help our clients to navigate organizational changes with confidence and clarity. Effectively communicate change initiatives, address concerns, and engage stakeholders throughout the transition process.

Strategic Communications

Connect effectively and consistently with your audience. Build credibility, foster trust, and establish meaningful relationships through strategic planning, content creation, and innovative design.

From conceptualizing to implementing and optimizing communication strategies and activities through tools and channels, together we reach your communication objectives to create impact and bring value to your target audience and stakeholders

Strategic partnership & public affairs

Drive business success with effective public affairs & stakeholder management

Strengthen strategic alignment, foster growth, and ensure sustainability with our expertise in business ecosystems, capacity building, DEIB, and public affairs.

Attract top talent, improve ESG scores, and build strong stakeholder relationships for long-term success.

Business Ecosystem Development

Boost your business impact with our expert ecosystem development. Think expansion.

ELFIN Consulting services include governance structures, partner selection, and stakeholder management, ensuring a thriving business ecosystem. You benefit from strategic alignments, defined partner roles, and robust frameworks for sustainable growth of your business.

Capacity Building

Unlock your potential with our tailored capacity-building solutions. We identify knowledge gaps and create customized training materials, develop content, and establish audience-tailored training academies.

Our approach integrates industry best practices to ensure your training programs are effective, engaging, and tailored to the knowledge needs of your audience – from employees to external stakeholders.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging (DEIB)

Elevate your organization’s DEIB performance to create a more inclusive and equitable working environment in which talent grows and thrives. Fostering a culture of belonging can even enhance product offerings and improve sustainability performance.

Leverage our comprehensive services, including in-depth competitor analysis, strategic roadmap development, actionable goal setting, metrics identification, and detailed fact-based reporting

Public Affairs

Develop and maintain strong relationships to enhance your reputation, shape policy, and to create business impact. How? Through effective public affairs and stakeholder management.

We co-create stakeholder engagement strategies and develop communication frameworks aligned with your business goals and bring them to realization through tailored support that fits the way you work.

International Development

Projects in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) demand expert implementation services to be effective and impactful. We adapt global strategies to local objectives and resources, providing hands-on guidance and support to local teams for maximum impact.

Our services include developing roadmaps, monitoring project progress, and measuring impact to ensure sustainable success.

Business Development & Innovation Management

Transform your agribusiness with expert business development & innovation management

Unlock your agribusiness’s full potential with our specialized services in Business Development and Innovation Management.

You benefit from tailored solutions in innovation management, agribusiness development, market intelligence, and strategic planning.

From ideation to market entry, our expertise ensures high ROI to shape your strategic growth, so you can generate and leverage your competitive advantage in the agricultural sector.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & INNOVATION MANAGEMENT

Innovation Management In Agriculture

Transform ideas to innovations with our customer-oriented processes. We work with you on creative and constructive ideation, concept testing, piloting and Go-to-Market strategies as part of an innovation friendly company culture alongside dedicated innovation strategies.

Agribusiness Development

Identify growth markets beyond core business based on your companies’ capabilities and transform this potential into new revenue streams.

We work with you on value-based business models, innovative pricing schemes, well-steered value chains or even entire business ecosystems paved by solid business planning and cases to help you achieve increased profitability.

Market, Business & Customer Intelligence, Agronomic R&D

Make informed decisions based on comprehensive insights and agronomic R&D.

We analyze the markets, identify entry opportunities, and conduct field trials and interviews to mitigate market entry risks.

Backed by extensive agronomic knowledge and access to third-party data inputs, ELFIN Consulting supports your strategic decision-making in familiar agricultural markets.

Agribusiness Strategies

Derive strategic options tailored to target markets, gaining a competitive edge, by outpacing competitors or directly jumping to uncontested blue ocean markets.

Our strategic development expertise, rooted in agribusiness and sustainability markets, delivers implementable strategies endorsed by leadership and employees.

Agile facilitation & digital transformation

Achieve agility and resilience with expert facilitation

Empower your organisation to thrive in today’s dynamic business landscape with ELFIN Consulting’s agile facilitation services.

From agile project management to organisational development and change management, we customise strategies to transform challenges into your growth opportunities.

Unlock agility and resilience for long-term success – it’s all about consistently driving forward with the small significant steps in the right direction

AGILE FACILITATION & DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Agile Project Management & Facilitation

Transform team or project related challenges that hinder successful outcomes.

Our experts customize project management, by using tools like readiness analysis and pain-point mapping, target setting and resource planning, stakeholder communication or capacity building.

They evaluate achievements and objectives, working through retrospectives while delivering end-to-end project management to guide you through the entire process.

Organizational Development & Change Management

Stay ahead of the curve in today’s dynamic business environment. How? By feeling that fear of something new – and doing it anyway. We empower organizations to proactively drive change by assessing the status quo, designing empowerment strategies, reducing bureaucratic structures or providing leadership coaching and organizing team development pathways.

You’ve already got a change management plan in place? Maybe you need support with effective change communications to smoothly guide an individual transition that supports your business transformation.

Partner with us for sustainable growth

Ready to take your business to the next level? Contact us today to explore how we can work together to co-create sustainable growth for your business.

Get in touch

Matthias Lüttges

Managing Director

service@elfin.works
+49 (0) 221 6705 6660