Arthur D. Little's Global Sustainability and Risk team offers a wide portfolio of services to help you integrate sustainability and risk management into your business strategy.

Understand sustainability opportunities and risks and develop strategy

We help you:

understand the key sustainability issues and risks facing your business through techniques such as issue scanning, foresighting, scenario development and risk identification
use workshops, roundtables and coaching to build commitment and vision
develop strategic responses to sustainability and risk issues and build these into your business strategy.

Integrate sustainability and risk management into your business processes

We help you:

identify gaps in your sustainability and risk management processes, including culture and behaviour as well as systems through benchmarking and powerful diagnostic approaches
adapt and refine your business processes to incorporate sustainability and risk issues.
design, pilot, rollout and integrate new sustainability and risk management processes, and align your organization and resources to support them.

Assure the safe performance of complex critical systems

For high hazard industries such as road and rail transport, oil and gas, and chemicals manufacture, we help you:

manage the design, development and implementation of critical systems by providing leading specialist expertise
optimise the safety/performance trade-off in system design through applying pragmatic and insightful reviews of compliance with standards and good practice.

Manage safety and risk in high hazard industries

For designers, operators and service providers in high hazard industries we help:

identify and assess safety hazards and risks using leading edge analysis and modelling tools
develop and implement strategies, systems, processes and organisation to manage safety, environmental and quality issues
assure the right levels of safety are maintained through audits and reviews.

Manage and mitigate environmental and social risk in project financing

We can help you:

develop a clear strategy to manage and mitigate project risk
assess intangible social risks during project feasability studies
build trust with regulatory bodies and stakeholders

Harness sustainability to drive innovation

We help you identify new market opportunities and develop new product and service offerings to respond to sustainability drivers, using powerful product and service creation tools. We help you identify and set up innovative collaborations with partners and other stakeholders to enhance your innovation capacity.

Measure and report sustainability and risk performance

We help you understand and act upon stakeholder expectations and perceptions, using well-proven stakeholder management tools. We help you develop and implement realistic but stretching sustainability and risk indicators. We help you verify your sustainability and risk performance, and develop effective and balanced reports that are aligned with your business strategy.