Change Management for
Sustainability Strategies
Class 5: Sustainable business model
transformation (II)
Course outline
1 Introduction Change management
6 overview
Climate change
Video presentations
2 Stakeholder analysis
Coaching sessions
& business
7 & change 10
communication
Biodiversity 12
3 & business 11
Implementation &
8 contingency plans
4 Sustainable
business model Changing through a
5 transformation 9 sustainable
organizational culture
2
Structure of the course (part
I)
Online climate Online biodiversity
change module module
2. Business & 3. Business & SULITEST
climate change biodiversity loss
1. Equipping
managers for a
sustainability- Climate/biodiversity impact diagnosis of
oriented world existing company
4. Sustainable 5. Sustainable
business model business model 6. Coaching session
transformation (I) transformation (II)
Recommendations for business model CHANGE
transformation MANAGEMENT
Grading components
• Active participation and critical/constructive thinking
• Pass the Sulitest between 20th and 30th September:
Class
Participation - Book approximately 1h30
1
(20%) - Connect to the TASK website USING THIS URL AND YOUR IESEG
EMAIL INFORMATION:
https://task.sulitest.org/?sso&domain=ieseg.fr
- In the “Sessions” section, add your specific session code:
T-7A6C-4EDF
Grading components
• 7th October, 18.00 – 2 hours
• Questions on the “Sustainability” part
- Questions related to the contents seen in class
Individual
- One question that builds on the lessons you draw from your Sulitest
2 Written Exam
(40%) results
• Questions on the “Change management” part
- Questions related to the contents seen in class
- One question that concerns how you implement your skills as a
changemaker for a better society
6
Grading components
• Imagine a sustainable business model transformation for an
existing company and design a change management plan
• Deliverables to be uploaded by 15th November on My Courses
Group Project (Benjamin Huybrechts’ tab):
3 (40%) - Written “academic” group report (20 pages)
- Video with a “consultancy” tone (5 to 7-min.)
• Group grade can be adapted per student depending on peer
evaluation (ChallengeMe)
7
Report
• 20 p., possibility to use appendices
• Usual format:
- Times New Roman or Arial, 12
- 2,5 margins and 1,5 line spacing
• Use course readings and company/stakeholder documents, and cite them properly
• Document and justify your claims, using precise evidence (including numbers)
• Develop precise, actionable recommendations
8
Structure of the report
THE COMPANY
• What are the company’s main features (history, size, markets, key facts and figures)?
AND ITS
1 CURRENT
•What is the current business model and where are the main environmental impacts?
• What are the material environmental issues according to the company and according to its stakeholders? (+/- 2 p.)
BUSINESS MODEL
EVALUATION OF • How does the company measure its impact on climate change & biodiversity and report on such measurement?
ENVIRONMENTAL • How do you assess their measurement and reporting? Is anything missing, underestimated, inaccurate?
2 REPORTING/ACTI • What is the gap between the current situation and what would need to be done to comply with the “climate (+/- 4 p.)
change” planetary boundary?
ONS
• How could the business model be transformed in terms of value proposition, upstream (production) and
NEW downstream (delivery) activities?
3 SUSTAINABLE • What elements of the business model could be circular and/or regenerative (i.e., generating positive impact)? (+/- 5 p.)
BUSINESS MODEL • What would be the impacts in terms of costs and revenues, and how could these impacts be managed?
CHANGE • How could the change be qualified (name of the change, type of change, change SWOT...)?
4 MANAGEMENT • How could the change be communicated (communication plan with its major stakeholders and its media)?
• What are the main risks, change indicators, and corresponding contingency plan? (+/- 8 p.)
PLAN
• What is your cricital appraisal of the company’s actions and objectives?
5 CONCLUSION • Could your change management plan be implemented in reality? Why (not)?
(+/- 1 p.)
• What could the company and society loose and gain through transforming its business model?
Video
• Must “tease” the contents of the report while being creative and appealing:
- NOT a filmed presentation!
- Various possible formats: TV show or talk, animated drawing or cartoon, interview
of real or fictional characters, role play, press conference,…
- Teaser of the report = highlight of main points, no need to cover everything in
detail!
• Quality of format matters as much as contents
• 5 to 7 min.
10
Final presentation session
• Scheduled on 5 December pm
• With two professors and half of the group:
- Teams 1-5: 14.00
- Teams 6-10: 15.30
• Video display followed by Q&A session where the other groups (4) will embody a
given stakeholder group and ask one question from that stakeholder’s perspective
11
“Sustainability” Coaching
Session
• Two online sessions (+/- 20min., informal discussion):
• Sustainability: between 4th and 18th October
• Change management: between 21st and 25th October
• For the Sustainability coaching session: Prepare/update max. 10 slides exposing
the contents of your final group work, including the diagnosis of the company’s
sustainability reporting (class 3 – assignment 2) and the work on the circular
business model canvas (class 4)
• Upload the slides on My Courses the day before the coaching session (4pm)
• Start thinking about the format of your final video
• Bring any questions you may have
Building sustainable/circular
business models
