What does an organization need to collaborate effectively with stakeholders and the environment? How ‘environmentally sensitive’ do you need to be, and how does that work in daily practice? The SOM Organizational Scan shows what is needed to elevate your organization's environmental management to a higher level.
The seven SOM factors that are examined in this regard are:
- Shared value/vision
- strategy
- Organizational structure
- systems
- Leadership
- profiles
- organizational competencies
The SOM Organizational Scan consists of three parts:
1. Assessment (current situation)
We will start with a kick-off meeting where we introduce the organization to SOM and gather valuable input for the scan. Based on desk research, an online survey, and interviews with management and employees, we will then map out the current level of environmental management within the organization, broken down by the seven SOM factors. The results of the assessment will be shared during an interactive session, allowing us to refine and enrich them.
2. Ambition (situation ’to be’)
Depending on your industry and the current circumstances for your organization, we will determine the ambition together with you: at what level should SOM be anchored in each of the seven factors to achieve your organizational goals? By involving your management and employees in this process, we ensure that the ambition is realistic and can count on sufficient support.
3. Improvement Plan (from ‘as is’ to ’to be’)
We are developing an improvement plan, with which you and your employees will work towards a ‘Built to Win’ organization within a mutually determined period, where environmental management is highly professionalized. We will not deliver a lengthy report, but a concrete and workable step-by-step plan. We will consider your type of organization and its culture. Our knowledge of change management ensures that the proposed interventions fit your organization and thus have the desired effect.
